George Ella Lyon

Parents tuck their child into bed as they talk about little animals that are also going to sleep in their nests, dens, and caves.

A child relates some of the wondrous tales told by an old man who once found a falling star and stood at the end of a rainbow.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal many different--and sometimes silly--items that trucks can haul.

Uses rhyme to enumerate and describe natural objects seen while walking through the woods.

Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.