Pat Brisson

Benny sets off in the morning with five shiny new pennies to spend and eventually buys something for his mother, brother, sister, dog, and cat.

When his teacher, Miss Perry, is killed in a car accident, Stevie and his elementary school classmates take turns sharing memories of her, especially her fondest wish for each day.

As a family sits down to enjoy a meal, thoughts of those who provide the food, from farmers who plant and tend seeds to store clerks who sell groceries, fill each one with gratitude.

Common Critters celebrates neighborhood wildlife in verse. A familiar cast of charactersworms, slugs, caterpillars, ladybugs, robins, mourning doves, houseflies, spiders, squirrels, skunks, and otherscrawls, runs, buzzes, and flits through these lively poems, which show how exotic these seemingly ordinary creatures really are.

Known for her lovely hair, Melissa wants to be seen as beautiful for something other than her appearance.

A young boy is joined by his animal friends as he and his little red wagon go up the hill to Grandma's house.