De Jong, Meindert

After a devastating tornado passes, a young boy finds himself all alone with two horses, one dying and the other badly injured.

Although she always wanted a cat, Millie was never allowed to keep one until she found one next to her Easter basket.

Tien Pao is all alone in enemy territory. Only a few days before, his family had escaped from the Japanese army, fleeing downriver by boat.

Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.

A boy brings home a pet goose for his mother's birthday present, but grandfather threatens to eat it at his own eighty-eighth birthday dinner.