Central Kansas Library System

Mama polar bear tells Little Cub that her birth was a gift from God.

"Peep can't wait for Egg to hatch. They will have so much fun together! But Egg isn't quite ready...yet"--

During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.