In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer, and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.

A young girl takes time to celebrate the sights and sounds around her, including her dog's soft fur, a flock of birds that passes by, waving blossoms on a tree, and the sound of the sea in a seashell.

While his friend works hard to earn the train fare to Fitchburg, young Henry Thoreau walks the thirty miles through woods and fields, enjoying nature and the time to think great thoughts. Includes biographical information about Thoreau.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text reveal ways nature affects our everyday lives, such as providing food and clothing, and showing when to go to bed and when to get up.

One of the most beautiful seasonal transitions is the replacement of the joyous laughter of your grandchildren with the calming sound of the snow as it falls softly upon the ground. Thinking of your grandchildren on quiet winter nights allows you to think of your own childhood and the time you spent with your grandparents many years ago.

The sounds of nature have a way of taking us back to our childhood. Remembering summer vacations with your grandparents, relaxing on a porch in the evening, and listening to stories of long ago with background music from nature's creatures can give us memories, which will live in our hearts forever.

In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.

After being blinded in one eye, a young boy becomes wild and unruly, until he discovers the wonders of nature in the Michigan woods near his family's summer cabin.

Portrays a day in the life of Earth Mother who, as she tends plants and animals around the world, meets three of her creations and offers advice on how to make the world more perfect.