(Holt, 1992)
When Chester’s family moves from the country to the city, the poor border collie is out-of-work. Desperately missing his sheep, he tries to herd everything in sight, with disastrous consequences, until he finally gets a new and most satisfying job.
Illustrated by Cat Bowman Smith.
(Macmillan, 1992)
Episodic poems depicting one family’s camping trip as seen through the eyes of a young girl.
Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully.
(Morrow, 1991)
To help him choose the next master of the forge, a blacksmith sends his three sons on a quest to bring him back something of value. Kindly Half, the youngest, stops in a magical wood to free an imprisoned raven, who tells him the secret of the most precious object in the world: the Golden Heart of Winter, a glowing heart that beats beneath the ground so that spring will follow winter forever and Life will rule equally with Death. When his two greedy brothers dig up the Heart, it is up to Half to rescue it and save his land from ruin.
Illustrated by Robert Rayevsky.
(HarperCollins, 1991)
A lyrical trip through the world’s time zones, starting and ending in Brooklyn, NY.
Illustrated by Frane Lessac.
(Doubleday, 1991)
Exotic birds, including eighteen diverse environments and their avian inhabitants.
Illustrated by James Needham.
(Harper & Row, 1990)
Emma has been taught to “do the right thing.” So she votes for a better actor rather than her best friend to play the lead in the fourth grade class play. When her friend, Sandy, finds out, Emma’s in trouble. A Junior Library Guild selection. A Trumpet Book Club selection (paperback), 1992. Illustrations by Jeffrey Lindberg.
(Prentice-Hall, 1981)
Everything you ever wanted to know about the allium family.
Illustrations by Marian Parry.
(HarperCollins, 1978)
Eleven-year-old Ellie Simon is going to have heart surgery. The novel tells of her stay in the hospital, the people she meets, and how she gets through this difficult time.
Illustrations by Leigh Grant.
(Dutton, 1978)
Rachel tries different plans to get people to notice her.
Illustrated by Steven Kellogg.
(Dutton, 1977)
Ruthie Zeiler, fourteen-year-old poet and singer, and her friend, Laurie, have always been a duo. But when Laurie’s stage mother makes other plans, their friendship is tested to the limit.
(Dutton, 1976)
Konrad refuses to believe that he is a dog. Abigail, a little girl, goes along with him until mayhem ensues.
Illustrated by Kelly Oechsli.
