Alice Dalgliesh

Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.

Tells how the thirteen colonies united in the desire for independence, selected Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence and carried the news of independence across the colonial settlements.

This story of life in four countries: Trinidad, England, the United States and Canada. Tells of the making of a teacher who turns writer.

One of Dedoushka's turnips grows to such an enormous size that the whole family, including the dog, cat, and mouse, is needed to pull it up.

Christmas stories arranged to celebrate the first Christmas, to recount tales of wonder, to describe early American festivities, and to tell of Christmas in other lands. Includes works by such authors as Alice Dalgliesh, Kenneth Grahame, Katherine Milhous, Eric P. Kelly, and Rachel Field.