Kathryn Otoshi

After two boys drawing their own lines realize they can connect them, a misstep creates a rift between them.

Zero was a big round number. When she looked at herself, she just saw a hole--right in her center. Every day she watched the other numbers line up to count. She wanted to count too! But how could a number worth nothing become something? She tries to force herself into the shape of the much-admired One, even Eight and Nine, but must finally accept that she can only be Zero-- and that Zero is a wonderful thing to be!

A Japanese family mourns the loss of a wife and mother by making origami cranes and using the Wind Telephone to communicate their feelings of loss and yearning.