Product Description: Finn has a happy life with his mother and father. Every summer he looks forward to the birthday celebration that will reunite him with his rich extended family, particularly his birthmother, Lisa. But when clouds threaten, Finn wonders how his much-loved birthday traditions can continue...read more

One dark, stormy, autumn night, a child hears the animals on Klickitat Island crying because they have no shelter, and the child's Beary proposes a daring plan to help them.

Lena discovers the reason for the special song her grandmother hums each time she makes apple strudel and, after learning its origin, Lena finds it appropriate that the song should be carried on in time through her.

Lena's grandmother tells about the time when her mother shared some of her freshly made strudel with a beggar who repaid their kindness in a beautiful song without words.

After discovering a box of bright satin ribbons in the attic and listening to her mother tell of her visits to her two beloved great-aunts, Nell begins to wish for her own elderly relatives, who would enjoy her visits and tell her stories of their childhoods.