Eve Bunting

When Emma's box turtle digs his way out of his pen, he imagines that he is having adventures in Africa, India, and other faraway lands that Emma has described to him.

When two turtles go to the gym, plant a garden, see a movie, eat out, and go on a night hike, they discover that you do not have to like the same things in order to be friends.

While still grieving for her mother and unable to accept her stepmother, a girl clings to the memories represented by forty-three buttons on a string.

A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.

Every year a family celebrates Hanukkah by retelling the story of how Grandma and her sister managed to mark the day while in a German concentration camp.

Introduces young readers to details about Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral.

When Terry wakes up in the middle of the night to horrible screeching, he thinks the Banshee has come to pay his family a visit.

The reader is invited to help Duck and his animal friends find a missing item.

In this allegory, the author's reaction to the Holocaust, the animals of the forest are carried away, one type after another, by the Terrible Things, not realizing that if perhaps they would all stick together and not look the other way, such terrible things might not happen.

Big Bear outgrew his little boat, so he is building himself a big boat and can't wait till he's rowing, fishing, and relaxing in it. When his friends start suggesting improvements, Big Bear obligingly follows theri advice. To his dismay, his big boat is turning out all wrong. It's because he hasn't followed his own dream, and he knows ecactly how to fix it. With all the simplicity, warmth, and wisdom of Little Bera's Little Boat, this book honors...