cherry

A father and child watch the cherry tree in their back yard, waiting until there are ripe cherries to bake in a pie. Includes a recipe for cherry pie.

A father and child watch the cherry tree in their back yard, waiting until there are ripe cherries to bake in a pie. Includes a recipe for cherry pie.

"Sakura's dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees, under which she and her grandmother used to play and picnic. She wonders how she'll ever feel at home in this new place, with its unfamiliar language and landscape. One day, she meets her neighbor, a boy named Luke, and begins to feel a little more settled... Luke does his best to cheer her up--and tells her about a surprise he knows she'll love, but she'll have to wait till spring. In the meantime, Sakura and Luke's friendship blooms and finally, when spring comes, Luke takes her to see the cherry blossom trees flowering right there in her new neighborhood"--.

A painfully shy boy becomes more bold when he receives a brave dog for his birthday, allowing him to befriend a mysterious girl who always sits in the cherry tree outside of school.

Cherries escape their jar in a soda fountain in search of a safeplace to stay.

Upset by his son's inability to sing, a father crow consults wise Grandfather Crow.

Upset by his son's inability to sing, a father crow consults wise Grandfather Crow.

A gypsy couple's kindness to the birds outside their cottage is repaid when their faithful old cherry tree begins to die.

From the seed of a cherry comes a new tree that is cared for by a little boy until he is finally able to pick the cherries to make a pie.

A father and child watch the cherry tree in their back yard, waiting until there are ripe cherries to bake in a pie. Includes a recipe for cherry pie.