Rosemary Wells

Yoko and Timothy aren't very frightening in their costumes that look like food, but they can still scare Doris and Stumpy, who ride an almost-real motorcycle in the school's Halloween parade.

Despite his sister Ruby's admonitions, Max waits up on Christmas Eve to see Santa Claus coming down the chimney.

Despite the doubts of some classmates and her native-born Japanese mother's inability to read English, Yoko finds the key to reading and catches up with the other students in putting new leaves on the classroom's book tree.

While they are at work a mother and father send powerful "love waves" to their child at home, offering reassurance and comfort in their absence.

Ruby and her friend Louise set up a lemonade stand to earn money to buy matching rings, but Max foils their plan.

Starting with number one for the first day of school, Emily learns the numbers to one hundred in many different ways.

Although Sophie wants to be helpful and good, sometimes she ignores her mother, father, and grandmother and must have a time-out.