Mary Lyn Ray

As winter melts into spring, the frozen earth turns into magnificent mud.

A man harvests and sells a bountiful crop of pumpkins so that he will be able to preserve the field from developers.

"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...New families arrive to look, but none stay. Perhaps the house, too, now belongs to the Long Ago and Used to Be?"--

"For one restless pup the waking world is too full of wonder to leave behind at bedtime, until he closes his eyes and finds comfort in his dreams"--

A star is how you know it s almost night. As soon as you see one, there s another, and another. And the dark that comes doesn t feel so dark. What if you could have a star?

"This picture book celebrates, through words and images, the best birthday gift of all--a whole day that is yours to unwrap"--