A collection of 24 picture poems linking animals with emotions using sensory imagery to spark wonder, paint word pictures to ponder, and see the world from a new perspective.
Based on a true story and told in alternating voices, follows the growing friendship between thirteen-year-old American Claire and Karl, a young German POW hired to work on her family's Michigan apple farm in October 1944.
An extremely exuberant chicken has an important message to share in this entertaining rhyming book that reminds readers that trying your best is reason enough to celebrate.