Mary Lyn Ray

As winter melts into spring, the frozen earth turns into magnificent mud.

While a boy in North America urges his father not to cut down the trees where the wood thrush lives, a boy in South America awaits the return of the bird that he calls "la flauta" for its flute-like song.

Explores the wonder of stars, whether they are in the night sky, on a plant as a promise of fruit to come, or in one's pocket for those days when one does not feel shiny.

A child who is in a woodland clearing to practice dancing spies a deer and observes how it leaps and turns.

A man harvests and sells a bountiful crop of pumpkins so that he will be able to preserve the field from developers.

A child describes all the things there are to do on a rainy day.

While driving on an imaginary car trip to Far Away, a child encounters winding roads, a toll both, bridges, and the Fix-It Garage before stopping for lunch and a nap.