Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane

Bob Bodden sets sail as cabin boy on the Rover, a ship so long that it takes him nearly three voyages around the world to deliver a message from the captain to the second mate.

Three poems about animals: Journey, about the animals' trip to the Ark; Rest in Egypt, from a medieval legend about the birth of Christ; and The Peaceable Kingdom, about the time when the lion will lie with the lamb.

In ancient Japan a struggling artist is angered when his housekeeper brings home a tiny white cat he can barely afford to feed.

A sheep dog returns from herding two strayed ewes to find his master gone and the entire village deserted.