Lyon, George Ella

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All the water in the world

2011
A lyrical, illustrated look at the water cycle, showing how water rises to the clouds and is rained back down again to be used by plants, people, and every living thing.

The pirate of kindergarten

2010
Ginny's eyes play tricks on her, making her see everything double, but when she goes to vision screening at school and discovers that not everyone sees this way, she learns that her double vision can be cured.

Counting on the woods

a poem
1998
Uses rhyme to enumerate and describe natural objects seen while walking through the woods.

Weaving the rainbow

2004
An artist raises sheep, shears them, cards and spins the wool, dyes it, and then weaves a colorful picture of the Kentucky pasture where her lambs were born.

Which side are you on?

the story of a song
2011
A woman defends her children and writes a song as men hired by the coal company for which her husband works shoot bullets through the windows and walls in retaliation for his fight for the rights of workers.

Father Time and the day boxes

1985
Text and illustrations describe how each day comes to us as Father Time tosses down one of the 365 packets he keeps safe in his vault in the clouds.

Holding on to Zoe

2012
After sixteen-year-old Jules loses her boyfriend she experiences complications from the pregnancy that drove him away and suddenly, some of the people closest to her are behaving as if her baby is not real.

Sleepsong

2009
Parents tuck their child into bed as they talk about little animals that are also going to sleep in their nests, dens, and caves.

Come a tide

1993
A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.

Gina, Jamie, Father, Bear

2002
The lives of two young people, one in Ohio and one in another dimension, intersect as they struggle to hold their single-parent families together and to explain the behavioral changes they see in their fathers.

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