Presents a lyrical picture-book biography about nineteenth-century writer and master gardener Celia Thaxton, who created beauty in a harsh island habitat that was visited by literary and artistic luminaries of her time.
Various disasters threaten to stop Poppa and the children from getting to the lake in their rattletrap car, but they manage to come up with an ingenious solution to each problem.
Tells the story of a surveying error that marked 144 acres of forest in Minnesota as a lake, resulting in the land being safe from logging for over 75 years.
A series of disasters threaten to stop Poppa and the children from getting to the lake in their rattletrap car, but they manage to come up with an ingenious solution to each problem.
Annalisa, the most curious and stubborn of Mama May's children, disobeys her mother and upsets the family cow by refusing to kiss the animal in return for the milk it gives.
