Miller, Pat Zietlow

Children learn to be themselves and accept their different personalities.

"When a young girl named Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate wants to make her feel better and remembers that Mom always says, "Be kind." But what does it mean to be kind? As the child ponders everything from asking a new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this...story explores what kindness is, and how any act, big or small, can make a difference--or at least help a friend"--Inside dust jacket.

A young girl sees a classmate spill grape juice on her dress and almost laughs, but she remembers her mother's advice to always be kind, and spends the rest of the day thinking of what it means to be kind and how she can show kindness to her embarrassed classmate.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal a family's preparations for their Thanksgiving feast, with everyone pitching in to help, including Baby, who sleeps quiet as a mouse.

Illustrations and rhyming text follow a young rabbit as he leaves home on a journey, discovering the joys of different kinds of roads and what they may bring--including a way back home.

Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.

Sophie, a girl whose best friends are squash, attends school for the first time. She takes Bonnie and Baxter, two baby squash she grew in the garden, with her but no one appreciates her friends! One boy, Steven, wants to be friends, but Sophie isn't interested. However, soon Sophie realizes her squash friends won't last forever, and she learns what real friends are.

On her very first day of school, Sophie is reluctant to make friends with the other children, preferring to play with two squash she grew in her garden--but when a particularly persistent boy named Steven gives her a packet of seeds as an apology for accidentally ripping her picture, she realizes that it just takes time to grow a friend.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal a family's preparations for their Thanksgiving feast, with everyone pitching in to help--including Baby, who sleeps quiet as a mouse.

One day while at the farmer's market, young Sophie picks out a squash. Her parents think it would make a good meal--Sophie thinks the squash will make a good friend. Naming her squash Bernice, Sophie begins to take her new friend everywhere.