Phillis Gershator

Various animals tell what they do and where they go when it starts to snow.

A child spends a wonderful summer in the country, in a big old house with plenty of mice but no running water, and begs to stay there, but summer's end and a cross-country journey bring a wonderful surprise.

Pictures and rhyming text describe the birds and animals that fill a forest with noise and fun. Holes in die-cut board pages provide the reader clues as a question is asked on one page and answered on the next.

In this West Indian version of "Stone Soup, " an old woman claims to have found a magic shell that can make kallaloo, a popular Caribbean gumbo.