Stinson, Kathy

In Montr?al, Qu?bec in 1885, ten-year-old Marie-Claire, worried about sickness in the family, quits school to help at home after her fireman father is injured and her mother takes in work as a seamstress.

A young girl sees "green things" in the laundry, under the bed, in her scrambled eggs, in the closet, in the garage, on the porch, and in her mother's sandwich.

A little boys tells about when he feels big and when he feels little with new color illustrations.

A family, trying to sleep at night, wakes each other up by moving to other locations and escaping the snoring, blanket-grabbing, and sleep-time movements of other family members.

Dylan enjoys the music played by a man playing the violin in the metro station but he cannot get his mother to listen.