George Ella Lyon

A child relates some of the wondrous tales told by an old man who once found a falling star and stood at the end of a rainbow.

In a small Alabama town in 1947-1956, Sonny searches for answers about his father's disappearance, "Uncle Marty," who looks after the family, and Mamby, their black housekeeper.

Third-grader Sharonda and her mother help volunteers from their church to build the house that will be their very own.

An artist raises sheep, shears them, cards and spins the wool, dyes it, and then weaves a colorful picture of the Kentucky pasture where her lambs were born.

In rhyming text the reader is introduced to all the different kinds of boats floating on rivers, lakes, oceans, and ponds.

Follows the changing seasons in a forest as trees and animals are nourished and are dependent on each other.

Six fictional characters, in cycles of linked poems, relate their memories of the historic day in 1963 when more than 250,000 people from across the United States joined together to march on Washington, D.C., calling for civil and economic rights for African Americans.

A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.

The author simply describes how she considered various careers as she grew and how she combined them all into her work as a writer.

A mother describes her job working as a miner.