Ruby Sisson Library

Six days a week the chickens help the Greenstalk family and their animals recover from mishaps that occur on the farm, but they need one day to rest.

A rhyming countdown of the days of the week as a father and child find ways to spend time together while waiting for the weekend.

Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy--beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and nine--trying (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller's and Sylvia Plath's: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks...

Illustrates how just like daylilies, we come and we go, but memories and friendships last forever.

"After Sunday quits being a day of the week, the other days of the week try out all sorts of candidates, until an act of kindness reminds them all that a little appreciation can go a long way"--

One by one, seven monkeys who go out to have a good time wind up falling in love over the course of a week.

Bruno and Bert try to find out what happens to a special day after it is over.

Grover passes the time and marks off the days until Georgie comes to visit on Saturday.

Grover passes the time and marks off the days until Georgie comes to visit on Saturday.

When his friend Daisy gets sick with chicken pox, Peter sends her more gifts each day of the week until she feels better.