Margaret Chodos-Irvine

Mary and Clare do everything together at preschool, but Mary's birthday celebration puts a strain on the girls' friendship.

"Lily ran and jumped and barked and whimpered and growled and wiggled and wagged and licked and snuggled. But not now. It is hard to lose a pet. There is sadness, but also hope--for a beloved pet lives on in your heart, your memory, and your imagination"--Dust jacket flap.

As Mommy and Daddy begin their day and get ready for work, a child observes this morning routine at home as well as the buzzing of a busy bee outside the window.

In this counting book, a child and parent play hide-and-seek while they bake cookies.

An exploration of the four seasons, told through each season's distinct sounds.

Greets the birds and animals of the tundra as they experience the change of seasons in their frozen northern land.

A master builder of faraway, fantastic worlds, Ursula K. Le Guin, at mid-career, found in her native California the inspiration for what was to be her greatest literary construction: nothing less than an entire ethnography of a future society, the Kesh, living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. This Library of America edition of her 1985 classic Always Coming Home, prepared in close consultation with the author, features new material added by Le Guin...