Presents a selection of poems chosen by young readers as their favorites from the work of Aileen Fisher, winner of the National Council of Teachers of English Award for Poetry for Children.
A family that has missed the spring season while down south sets out up a mountain where, on a summer's day by the calendar, they find spring scents and flowers and a winter's storm and snow.
When mother goes away on a visit her young daughter begins to notice things that do not have mothers to care for them such as frogs, beetles, and butterflies.