Anne F Rockwell

A series of riddles that first give descriptions of various flowers and then reveal their names.

Everybody on the farm stops what they are doing to come and enjoy Grandma's sweet potato pie.

Chip starts taking karate lessons to be like the hero of his favorite television show, but his impatience to earn a belt gets in the way of learning the true spirit of karate.

A cumulative story in which several animals join a boy and his flute in a noisy procession.

Molly Pitcher was a courageous woman who faced battle in the Revolutionary War.

A boy visits the classroom where he will attend kindergarten the following fall and finds out what is in store for him.

Each child in Mrs. Madoff's class brings a visitor who tells the group about his or her job.

"What happened when a former slave took beat-up old instruments and gave them to a bunch of orphans? Thousands of futures got a little brighter and a great American art form was born. In 1891, Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins opened his orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina. He soon had hundreds of children and needed a way to support them. Jenkins asked townspeople to donate old band instruments - some of which had last played in the hands of Confederate...

Describes the variety of birds visiting a yard, from the phoebe and wren to the crows and blue jays.

When the new house needs fixing up, a brother and sister accompany their father on a trip to the hardware store to find the tools and materials needed to get the job done.