Lisa Westberg Peters

"Hey, creatures of the world! The plants would like to set a few things straight in this entertaining account of the astonishing skills they possess. Readers will be familiar with some of these abilities, such as photosynthesis, but others are likely to amaze children and adults alike, such as the fact that trees can communicate with-and send food and water to-one another through their roots with the help of fungi that connect them! Bursting with...

Early one spring a little duck arrives at her pond and finds it still frozen, but not for long.

Although a young child puts off cleaning the bedroom because all the family's pets are asleep there, the sudden arrival of a zooming fly mysteriously gets the job done.

Katherine and her friend, an older man named Carl, celebrate the seasons on their river together, until his absence requires her to grow and change as their special relationship changes.

The wind blows in newcomers from all directions. "They" become "we," and we become a garden. -- Back cover.