Fisher, Aileen Lucia

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.

Twelve-year-old Peter goes to live with his Quaker uncle whose farm on the bank of the Ohio River gives him a view of the steamboats he loves and a role in the underground railroad.

"A little girl takes a country stroll with her father 'in the middle of the night'. What she learns about the evening world of insects, animals, and flowers is revealed in...verse".

A boy searches for a singing mouse and makes a promise to the white-footed mouse he captures that if the animal sings it will be freed.

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.

Poems about insects, animals, birds, plants and flowers, and the seasons.

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.