Barbara Brenner

Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act. The Muldie boys and their father have come along way to Kansas to look for land. They build a dugout house and live through a hard winter, saved from starvation by a band of Osage Indians. Spring comes, and Daddy moves to find a better home for them. The three brothers are left to fend for themselves, and when at last...

When Oka-san, a brown-and-gold duck, selects the Mitsui Office Park as the perfect spot for her nest, people flock from downtown Tokyo to watch the ducklings hatch. A modern-day Make Way for Ducklings, set in Japan.

Upon entering a garden one morning, a child greets the flowers, plants, insects, and animals there.

Demonstrates how the concepts and principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence were drawn from the experiences of living in America in the late eighteenth century, with emphasis given to how children lived on a New England farm, a Southern plantation, and the frontier.

For one afternoon, a child visitor observes the cycle of change within a tidepool, a small place at the edge of the sea that is home to many plants and animals.

A selfish rabbit learns that sharing is the one ingredient needed to make the perfect Group Soup.

A young boy and a young elephant realize that there are many similarities between them--they both grew inside their mothers, they both like to play, they hold on to a grown-up when they are afraid, and they both take naps.

When his friends decline to come over for a beef stew dinner, Nicky feels bad until a surprise visitor shows up.

When a mysterious box drops out of the sky bringing big changes to a town cut off from the rest of the world, a clever child realizes that something must be done about it.

Celebrates the tree, one of the most useful plants on Earth.