Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

This is a cute book that teaches how to be happy with yourself, just the way you are! The little rabbit learns that when he tries to be like the other animals, he's not happy. I used to read this to our sons when they were little.

On Christmas eve the forest gives a party for all the animals.

A squirrel with a golden tail is ignored by a family of grey squirrels, so he sets out up the mountain with his friend skunk, to find a new home.

Miss Hickory, a country doll made from an apple-wood twig, is left behind when her owner goes to Boston. She is helped through the long winter by several farm and forest animals. Prickly and a little stubborn, she slowly learns to accept help from others, and to offer some assistance herself. Newbery Award winner. Illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannett (illustrator of My Father's Dragon).

Tells of the creative arts of young America and the creative people such as Mordecai Lincoln and Grant Wood.

Twenty-seven short stories about twenty holidays throughout the year.