Broder, Robert

"'Will you help me?' Isidora and Julian, playing in the Chilean ocean, hear a plaintive cry--a sea lion is tangled in an abandoned fishing net. They free their ocean friend then wonder what to do with the net. With the help of a bird, they recycle it into something useful again, something better than new. This . . . story educates children about the dangers of ocean pollution, then shows what they can do to help heal the earth"--OCLC.

A father teaches his daughter about woodworking and she contributes imagination and fun as they build a shed together.

Crow, a scarecrow, is lonely standing in the cornfield until the farmer's children build a snowman next to him, starting a years-long friendship.