Catherine Stock

There seems to be no place for the smallest child in a family'sbusy preparations for Thanksgiving, until Grandpa steps in and they perform a vital task everyone else has forgotten.

A child makes valentines for her family and then adds a specialname to her list. On Valentine's Day she receives a secret valentine in return.

A child and his parents enjoy the last-minute activities to prepare for Christmas.

Kukamba loves helping her grandmother decorate her mud home in a dusty Zimbabwe village, but when the annual rains partially destroy all her art work, Kukamba learns to see the goodness of the rains.

A little elephant's midnight snack grows into a feast composed of a different food for each letter of the alphabet.

Summer transforms a quiet island as visitors arrive for swimming, playing on the beach, card games, soccer, hide-and-seek, and dancing in the evening.

Sophie accompanies her parents on an overnight hike to Purple Cloud Rock.

Emma's grandfather, newly arrived from China, introduces her tothe power of dragons.

Through its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a desire to turn back the clock on American history. In her new preface, Catherine McNicol Stock provides an update and overview of the conservative face of rural America. She paints a comprehensive portrait of a long line of rural activists whose crusades against big government, bug business, and big banks sometimes spoke in a language of progressive populism and sometimes...

Gus enjoys basketball practice, but the noise and pace of real games bother him, until his grandpa gives him some good advice.