Born to Run

By Michael Morpurgo

A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake

By Debra Frasier

A lyrical recipe using the changes in the natural world to explain to a child the time that passes between one birthday and the next. Includes recipe for more traditional birthday cake as well.

Prajapati and the year

By J. Jan Gonda

Month by Month a Year Goes Round

By Carol Diggory Shields

The months and seasons of the year offer fun times for everyone.

Days, Weeks and Months

By Margaret Joy

Explains how the year came to be divided into weeks and months, and presents anecdotes, legends, quotations, and traditional rhymes associated with various times of the year.

Mommy is a soft warm kiss

By Rhonda Gowler Greene

A child celebrates all of the wonderful things a mother can be throughout the year, from a treasure buried in summer sand to a snow-white angel gliding down winter slopes.

Around The Year

By Tasha Tudor

I Live in Brooklyn

By Mari Takabayashi

Six-year-old Michelle, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, describes some of the daily activities she, her family, and friends engage in during the different seasons of the year.

My Busy Year

By Joan Walsh Anglund

Around the year

By Tasha Tudor

Brief rhymes and drawings of activities popular in the nineteenth century portray events that occur in each month of the year.