Books like Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
By Robert E. Barry
For the kid who loves finding out what happens next and next and next, this one turns a single Christmas tree into a chain of small surprises. cozy, cumulative, old-fashioned Christmas warmth
Two little pigs come home from a walk to find their den and hut crushed flat by a big friend Bear and an even larger Moose — so all four set out to build one house big enough for everyone.
A big sister and little sister play outside through sun, rain, leaves, and snow — until bossiness and frustration push them apart, and they must find their way back to each other.
A bear cub finds a piano in the forest and, drawn back again and again, teaches himself to play beautiful music — then must choose between city fame and the friends who love him at home.
Three traveling monks arrive in a war-weary village where suspicious neighbors hide their food and shutter their windows — until the monks offer to make soup from nothing but stones.
A lonely woman welcomes a traveling salesman's pets into her home one by one, but draws the line firmly at one thing: no elephants, thank you very much.
Voted the most beautiful bird in the forest, a glossy blackbird is begged by the red, yellow, blue, and green birds to paint markings of black onto their feathers so they can be beautiful too.
A pair of cardinals build their home in a beloved evergreen tree, but when the tree is suddenly taken away, one bird must find his way back to the other across a great distance.
During hard times in a Florida forest, a girl named Calpurnia sets off with her little dog to find enough fish to feed her hungry family and neighbors, guided by a mysterious tip from the forest's wisest old woman.
A girl in a red knit cap and her forest friends find a hollow tree and turn it into a shared library, each animal adding its own gift to the spot.
A hermit crab finds a brand-new shell and refuses to share it with a blobby purple anemone and a tickly bristleworm — until rock-pool life turns out tougher than he expected.
A lonely squirrel named Mr. Peanuts spends his days climbing trees and gathering nuts, wishing for company — until he meets a special squirrel friend and falls in love, with visits to the bookstore, the park, and a candlelit dinner.
A lonely old man sets out to find one pretty cat but can't choose among the millions, billions, and trillions he finds on a hillside — so he brings them all home.
