Mary Lyn Ray

"The farm's creatures prepare for night and rest"--

A star is how you know it's almost night. As soon as you see one, there's another, and another. And the dark that comes doesn't feel so dark. What if you could have a star?

As a child, Elva asks for a violin so that she can make beautiful music but many years pass before her dream can come true.

"For one restless pup the waking world is too full of wonder to leave behind at bedtime, until he closes his eyes and finds comfort in his dreams"--

"A picture book biography of the four Moody sisters who designed and built fairy tale-like cottages in Santa Barbara in the 1930s and 1940s"--

Illustrations and easy-to-read text provide a primer on friendship, including the many ways friendships are formed.

Explores the ways thankfulness can find expression throughout the day.

"This picture book celebrates, through words and images, the best birthday gift of all--a whole day that is yours to unwrap"--

"Every house has a story. This house; an old one hunkered in the deep grass below a wide country sky is a waiting house. Once it was full of laughter and song. The sounds of life rang within its walls. Now it stands quiet and still...New families arrive to look, but none stay. Perhaps the house, too, now belongs to the Long Ago and Used to Be?"--

After hearing some men call his father and him hillbillies on his first trip into the nearby town of Hudson, a young boy is not so sure he still wants to become a basket maker.