McCourt, Lisa

On the telephone to her son, a mother promises the many ways she will come to rejoin him, traveling by hot air balloon, camel, cheetah, and shark.

At first reluctant to attend Della's birthday party because all the kids think that she is weird, Carrie finds herself the only guest and decides to make it Della's best birthday ever.

A mother reassures her son when he imagines increasingly silly things that might go wrong on his first day of kindergarten.

Presents addition and subtraction story problems involving lollipops, taffy, gumballs, peppermints, fudge, and other types of candy.

On the telephone to her son, a mother promises the many ways she will come to rejoin him, traveling by hot air balloon, camel, cheetah, and shark.

A mother and child discuss how the mother's love would remain constant even if her child were a stinky skunk, scary ape, or bug-eating green alien.

As a young boy wonders about all the things that might go wrong at school, his mother reassures him.

A girl looks at old photographs with her mother, trying to figure out what her mother feels most grateful for in her life.

Nervous and shy about being the new kid on the first day of school, Julie has a rough start trying to make friends, but things get better as the day goes on.

Izzy's summer is going to be ruined! Her parents won't let her go to Pine View Camp with all her friends. But things begin to change for Izzy when she starts to give-back time with Grandpa Mike and meets the braids girl.