Karen Hesse

A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.

A loving grandmother and her grandchild enjoy an adventure by the sea and stop to have tea.

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world. At the age of four, Mila fell from a refugee craft and was lost in the ocean between Cuba and Florida. Until her rescue eight years later, she lived as a wild child of the sea. As Mila now learns to communicate and deal with the complexities of human feelings, she develops an understanding of a strange...

Maybelle, Jack, and Eddie want to help Ma by putting something extra on the table, so they set out in the dark to take potatoes from a nearby field, but when they arrive home and empty their potato sacks, they are surprised by what they see.

Follows the antics of a happy little girl who explains how sucking her thumb is comforting and that her parents do not need to worry about it.

A collection of eight poems, each taking place on a different night of Hanukkah and following the history of Jews from twelfth-century England to twentieth-century Israel.

Hans Christian Andersen's early life inspired many of his most famous tales. The author relates Andersen's own youthful experiences to "The Ugly Duckling," "The Ice Maiden," and other stories he later created.

In the small, small pond: Spring is here in this cheerful introduction to the seasons. Waiting for wings: Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this visually magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends-- of eggs, caterpillars and finally butterflies. Fletcher and the springtime blossoms: Fletcher sees something he never expects in spring-- snow! But Fletcher is in for a warm and wondrous surprise. Goose: A baby goose, adopted at birth...