Liz Garton Scanlon

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"--

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

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).

A girl uses her imagination to turn an ordinary box into a sailboat.

A classroom of exuberant youngsters explores art in its most varied forms, from painting, music, and writing to cooking and performing.