Patricia Polacco
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind
6) Meteor!
Author
Language
English
Description
A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.
10) Welcome comfort
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A lonely foster child, Welcome Comfort, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.
11) Thunder cake
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c1990.
Language
English
Description
Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
12) The bee tree
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
To teach his granddaughter the value of books, a grandfather leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where bees keep all their honey.
16) Babushka's doll
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1990.
Language
English
Description
A little girl gets a doll that turns out to be twice as rambunctious as her owner.