Harriet Ziefert

"Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many items that are made from trees. But it doesn't stop there! Kids will also learn about the many uses of live trees--and the environmental danger to trees posed by forest fires, floods, and deforestation. Kids are encouraged to be kind, not only to one another, but to the environment as well."--

A poor family with a magic pot soon discover that getting the pot to cook is easy--the tricky part is getting it to stop.

Best buddies Mike and Tony enjoy doing everything together, from playing baseball to riding bikes, so their argument over a pillow fight keeps them apart for only a short while.

When Clara does not want to get dressed, her mother encourages her to make the meanest, ugliest, scariest faces in the mirror while she assists the girl in putting on her clothes.