Liz Garton Scanlon

"Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking. For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies -- unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably -- on the night Millie babysits. There's nothing she could have done. There's...

A young girl finds a way to tame the winds besieging an old man who lives on a hill above her village.

"When a young boy gets a cold, he just wants his mommy. But his stuffy nose makes it difficult for him to call out to his mom--not 'Bob,' who happens to be the family dog"--

Illustrations and rhyming text explore a community garden and what grows there, from flowers and fruit to friendships.

In a series of letters a student laments the absence of her teacher and daily routine, but she soon realizes there are benefits to mixing things up, and that perhaps having a substitue teacher is not so bad afterall.

A single starling is joined by hundreds more, and together they dance across the sky, finally settling into the trees.

Noodle, a worm, is sad and feeling bad about himself, but his friend Lou, a bird, convinces him that he is likeable just as he is.

Throughout a child's day, five minutes can go by quickly (when you are on a roller coaster) or slowly (when you are in the dentist's chair).

Precocious eight-year-old Bibsy navigates a relationship with a teacher who thinks she talks too much.