Two sisters befriend a man who is different from their other neighbors, visiting his furniture shop and enjoying chocolate bars, but when Christmas comes, they discover that they also have something worth sharing.

When winter refuses to leave a little village, the townspeople try everything to scare it away, but it is not until wise Hans' plan, using hay, straw, and an old wagon, that a taste of green spring appears

Product Description: The poems in Love from the Yellowstone Trail stem from my childhood. I spent my first eighteen years within sight of the Missouri River seen from our front porch steps in South Dakota. Thus rose six poems about the river. The Yellowstone Trail is an old name for stretches of the current Highway 12...read more

A collection of poems looks at the life of Mozart's sister, Maria Anna. (view table of contents)

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge

Product Description: Sharon Chmielarz's fifth collection of poetry is a cornucopia of small, lyric poems on various topics, encompassing Chopin and Pushkin, dolphins and cows, zippers and gourds, bar scenes and garden scenes. As Connie Wanek observes, ''The poems are about--and the last luminous poem is entitled-- 'Everything'...read more