Ellen Weiss

Pepper and Jake, sister and brother shepherds, match wits with the giant, Urk, who regularly floods their valley with his dirty washwater.

Rhyming text follows a set of twins as they fight over two new toys, break one, and learn to share the other.

Hitty, a wooden doll that travels from girl to girl, becomes the valued possession of an Italian girl who emigrates with her family to New York City in 1908.

Because Mrs. Marsh is always in her classroom before the students arrive and always stays after they leave, Mollie becomes convinced that her teacher has no home other than the school.

Hitty, a wooden doll, travels with ten-year-old Annie and her father from New York City to California in 1849 to search for gold and start a new life.

Hitty is a wooden doll whose owner, Nell, lives on a plantation in North Carolina. When a slave girl named Sarina comes to work on the plantation, Nell and Sarina become friends. But then they break the unwritten rules of the plantation and trouble ensues.

When Isabelle agrees to be a flower girl at a wedding, she is so concerned about doing something wrong that she almost forgets to have fun.

Rhyming text describes the fun a set of twins has when they take their bath.