Mary Lyn Ray

"Explores the ways thankfulness can find expression throughout the day." --

"Illustrations and easy-to-read text provide a primer on friendship, including the many ways friendships are formed." --

While a child dozes off to sleep, a small farm's creatures prepare for night and rest.--

Mr. Barnes goes on a train trip and enjoys all the sights and sounds of the ride.

For every aspiring young author out there, this story of a lucky author (and, of course, her dog!) offers both answers and inspiration! Ever wonder what it's like to be an author?Does she write in a quiet corner somewhere? Or someplace loud and busy? Does she have ideas forty times a day? Or does she sometimes get stuck? And how does her dog make her lucky?New York Times bestselling author Mary Lyn Ray, together with illustrations from Steven Henry...

A child who is in a woodland clearing to practice dancing spies a deer and observes how it leaps and turns.

"Every house has a story. This house-an old one hunkered in the deep grass below a wide country sky-is a waiting house. Once it was full of laughter and song. The sounds of life rang within its walls. Now it stands quiet and still. The house has sheltered many families over the years and remembers them fondly, especially the children. New families arrive to look, but none stay. Perhaps the house, too, now belongs to the Long Ago and Used to Be? Or...

Rosie, a little dog, is afraid of nothing except thunder and during one very bad storm, she discovers that the boy who she lives with is frightened, too.

"While drivng on an imaginary car trip to Far Away, a child encounters winding roads, a toll both, bridges, and the Fix-It Garage before stopping for lunch and a nap."--

While a boy in North America urges his father not to cut down the trees where the wood thrush lives, a boy in South America awaits the return of the bird that he calls "la flauta" for its flute-like song.