Margaret Chodos-Irvine

Despite the advice of others in her family, Ella Sarah persists in wearing the striking and unusual outfit of her own choosing.

A Chinese American child fears that the food her parents are preparing to sell on the Fourth of July will not be eaten.

In this cumulative, rhyming story, a young boy takes a nighttime ride from the distant stars in the Milky Way galaxy to his cozy bed, as his blanket becomes a rocket, a plane, and a skateboard.

An exploration of the four seasons, told through each season's distinct sounds.

A child reflects on how a small, striped gray seed eventually becomes a strong, beautiful sunflower.

Greets the birds and animals of the tundra as they experience the change of seasons in their frozen northern land.

"Spiraling outward from the dramatic life story of a woman called Stone Telling," this is an "interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork and music ... [which tells of] the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast." --Cover of U. of California Press pbk. ed.