To heal the hurt pride of Thomas Jefferson as Congress makes changes to his Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin tells his friend the story of a hatmaker and his sign.

A young girl finds music all around her as she walks about the city of Venice, Italy, and she shares her song with everyone she meets.

"In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mexico was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of debris. Some say the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground, that a UFO had crashed there, and that the government was covering up the evidence in a massive conspiracy. But what really happened at Roswell? The infamous 'crash from outer space' has become a fixture in our culture, inspiring a surge...

"A lyrical tour of the ecology of tide pools."--

Uses a scrapbook format, featuring hundreds of black-and-white photographs and illustrations, to trace the lives and experiences of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln from the time of their births through the tumultuous period following Abraham's assassination.

A mother bird frantically tries to keep her seven baby birds fed.

"It's Christmas Eve and Bulldozer doesn't know what to get his friends for Christmas. With a little creativity, he will turn trash into treasure"--

In a lonely Illinois cemetery one cold October night, teen ghosts recount the stories of their deaths in different time periods, from 1870 to the present, to sixteen-year-old Mike, who unknowingly picked up a phantom hitchhiker.

A young girl finds music all around her as she walks about the city of Venice, Italy, and she shares her song with everyone she meets.

A rhyming counting tale in which Possum, Skunk, Frog, and other animals join a procession through the swamp, one with a potentially dangerous conclusion.