As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

The growing to maturity of an Austrian deer. The Prince of the Forest Bambi's life in the woods begins happily. There are forest animals to play with -- Friend Hare, the chattery squirrel, the noisy screech owl, and Bambi's twin cousins, frail Gobo and beautiful Faline. But winter comes, and Bambi learns that the woods hold danger -- and things he doesn't understand. The first snowfall makes food hard to find. Bambi's father, a handsome stag, roams...

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.

Matthais grows from a little boy to a grandfather on a small island off the coast of New England.

A poem telling of the birth of a child in a barn among the animals, with illustrations which depict the barn and people of a twentieth-century farm.

A sly fox tries to outwit a proud rooster through the use of flattery.

Relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.

A collection of nursery rhymes, each in both English and Spanish, collected from the Spanish community in the Americas, many with instructions for accompanying finger plays or other activities.

Describes the strange and splendid things that can happen on a bimulous night when the sky is like lace.

When a mother and child pay a visit to their reclusive neighbor Emily, who stays in her house writing poems, there is an exchange of special gifts.