Jed Henry

Mouse's friends try everything to keep their friend from feeling low--flapping and fluttering in the sky, splashing and paddling in the water, leaping and loping in the grass--but nothing seems to cheer him up.

Sam is finally old enough to help his parents harvest cranberries on their family farm in Wisconsin, from flooding the field to prepare the vines for the picking machine to delivering the fruit to receiving station. Includes recipes for cranberry sauce and cranberry pie, author's note, and glossary.

Although Pepe achieves fame and fortune as a movie star dog--much to the chagrin of a jealous movie star cat--Pepe longs for a family.

After observing different types of dogs in his neighborhood, Sam and Gram go to the local pet shelter to choose a puppy.

"In the second book of the series, seven-year-old Ty Perry discovers that being kind is part of being Ty"--

Rhyming text relates how a cat child deals with missing Dad and Grandma, who both live far away.

Mike is so eager to open his Christmas gifts that he convinces his older sister, Pam, to unwap and play with them in advance, but when Christmas morning arrives they are unhappy about what they have done.