Rachel's prospects for a boring summer disappear when she meets Michael, but as the season progresses she becomes concerned about his increasing tendency toward violence and begins to question the boundaries of friendship and trust.
Collects Mexican love poems, quotations, and proverbs; and features works from seventeenth-century nun Sor Juana In?s, along with Ram?n L?pez Velarde, Rosario Castellanos, and others.
During a bedtime game, every time Little Nutbrown Hare demonstrates how much he loves his father, Big Nutbrown Hare gently shows him that the love is returned even more.
Katy and Joe play together at school and send each other love notes until a friend of Joe's finds the notes and laughs at him. Story is accompanied by children chanting traditional rhymes about love, including "Katy and Joe, up in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G.".