Central Kansas Library System

A little bird asks animals, planes, and boats, "Are you my mother?" until he finds his own mother.

A small green inchworm is proud of his skill at measuring anything--a robin's tail, a flamingo's nick, a toucan's beak. Then one day a nightingale threatens to eat him hi he cannot measure his song.

When a pair of robins begins building a nest in Amelia Bedelia's swing set, she is torn between wanting to clear it off so that she can continue to slide down her slide, and giving up that fun so she can watch the birds raising their babies. She sides with the birds, and observing them informs her about her own family.

When Bird gets hit on the head while playing ball, his friends have many suggestions to try to make him feel better.

While visiting Iowa in 1893, the Czech composer Anton Dvorak hears the song of a scarlet tanager and is inspired to create a new piece of music.

Carlisle McMillan, a traveler and master carpenter seeking a place of quiet amid the grinding roar of progress. Near Wolf Butte, a strange and apparently haunted monolith, he finds his quiet, or so he believes, and begins rebuilding a decrepit house as a tribute to the gruff old man who taught him a carpenter's skills, rebuilding his life at the same time. He finds two very different, independent women: Gally Deveraux, who works at a diner in Salamander...