Cyd Moore

In art class, neatness, conformity, and imitation are encouraged, but when Willow brings imagination and creativity to her projects, even straight-laced Miss Hawthorn is influenced.

On the telephone to her son, a mother promises the many ways she will come to rejoin him, traveling by hot air balloon, camel, cheetah, and shark.

A mother reassures her young son as he imagines all the things that might go wrong while trick-or-treating.

As a young boy wonders about all the things that might go wrong at school, his mother reassures him.

When Willow's family moves to a new home, she makes friends with all of the neighbors, even unsmiling Mr. Larch, through her letters inviting each to be as generous as she is.

After Greta, a naughty witch, causes trouble by casting a spell that drains all color from the world, she must team up with Alice, a kind witch, to set things right.

Ruthie's Nana suggests playing tea party and fashion show during their visit, but Ruthie is much more interested in the vehicles that a neighbor boy is playing with as they pass his house each day.

Sticky children playfully spread their stickiness around until bathtime changes everything. Do you . . . eat with sticky fingers and slurp tea-party tea? Can you . . . make a goopy mud cake and sticky cards with glue? Then this book is for you!

A collection of short whimsical poems by such authors as Lucille Clifton, John Ciardi, Russell Hoban, and Sylvia Plath.