Bob Graham

A city's worth of magical moments coincide, including young Jodie's completion of a drawing, a man's purchase of fresh bread at a bakery, a soldier's farewell to his mother, a blackbird's discovery of a worm, and Jodie's baby brother's first step.

When Will finds a bird with a broken wing, he takes it home and cares for it, hoping in time it will be able to return to the sky.

"This is first-rate child's fare. . . . Sure to make both listeners and readers feel warm and happy when they put it down." — BOOKLIST (starred review)
There are lots of dogs of all shapes and sizes at the animal shelter. But Kate and her mom and dad know they want Dave the moment they see him. He's small and cute and a perfect fit for the end of Kate's bed. But then they see Rosy, who is old and gray and broad as a table. How can

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"After a long, cold winter, doors finally open, and children spill out like candies from a box. Amanda is the last one out of the apartment building, with a carton of chalk in her hands. On every inch of the pavement outside, the children draw pictures of flowers and trees, mushrooms and snails, and a few very unexpected things. It's a concrete garden. Their creativity, unfettered in the open air, brings something beautiful, something hopeful, to...

Humpty Dumpty's little sister is too shy to be part of her family's circus act, but she finds courage when her brother needs her help.

"'Oh, let's do it!' say Kitty and Katie and Mom when a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle mysteriously arrives in the mail. 'I have time on my hands,' agrees Dad. Starting in winter with the edges, by autumn they're almost done, only to discover that one piece is missing. Mom is sure that it must have accidentally gone out with the trash, so the Kellys pile into the car to comb through the local dump ('shouldn't take long'). There they uncover forgotten...

When a dog trainer is called in to teach Dave the dog how to behave, Dave is not the only one who learns something new.

James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse conformists. The violence of the system on its white citizens...