Margaret Wild

From an award-winning author comes a spellbinding story of two young women at the turning points in their lives, when each must choose to accept the life she has, or leap into the one she might yet live. A moment. That's all it takes. A bewildering moment when the world spins upside-down, and then life can never be the same again. Arrow was just a girl when she saw something no child should have to see, and she's still haunted by this childhood tragedy....

When young Amy brings a sloth home for a visit, her family, the speediest in town, learns how to slow down to talk, play, and be lazy.

When Tom, a young panda, goes to his very first day of kindergarten, his whole family stays and plays and wishes they could be in kindergarten too.

One day when Harry comes home from school, his faithful companion Hopper isn't there to greet him, in a touching story about the process of healing after losing a beloved pet.

Little lambs, chicks, ducks, and pigs change places and try other ways to delay going to bed.

A child moves from the country to the city, saying goodbye to her old house and its memories and hello to new experiences in a new house.

Bobbie, an Australian wallaby, can jump, bounce, and skip but cannot do splits until the other animals help her.

"With charming illustrations and rhythmic text that is perfect for reading aloud, this wonderful story about the things babies love to do will inspire endless fun, as babies always love to read about babies. Descriptions of such familiar activities as playing peek-a-boo, clapping, and banging a drum are accompanied by lively illustrations, and will inspire many imitations."--Amazon.com.

Rosie the hare is afraid to hold her premature baby brother because he seems so fragile until their father tells her a special story about a tortoise and a hare.