Catherine Stock

Although he is not pleased with his mother's choice of gift for him to take to a birthday party, a little boy attends and experiences a pleasant surprise.

There seems to be no place for the smallest child in a family's busy preparations for Thanksgiving, until Grandpa steps in and they perform a vital task everyone else has forgotten.

A brother and sister spend Easter with their mother in a little cabin on the lake.

Through its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a desire to turn back the clock on American history. In her new preface, Catherine McNicol Stock provides an update and overview of the conservative face of rural America. She paints a comprehensive portrait of a long line of rural activists whose crusades against big government, bug business, and big banks sometimes spoke in a language of progressive populism and sometimes...

Tommy is reluctant to dress up and go out on Halloween until his mother convinces him that there are no real monsters, ghosts, or witches.

Summer transforms a quiet island as visitors arrive for swimming, playing on the beach, card games, soccer, hide-and-seek, and dancing in the evening.

Sophie accompanies her parents on an overnight hike to Purple Cloud Rock.

Emma's grandfather, newly arrived from China, introduces her to the power of dragons.

A child living near the Limpopo River in Zimbabwe encounters several wild animals on her way to school.

Gus must visit the hospital when his beloved Grandpa has a heart attack.