Jonathan Bean

"An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a 'big snow.'"--

A young girl narrates her family's move from the city to the country, where they have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they build a house from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a family as they move to a new town.

Real cowboys are gentle, patient, and creative as they move hundreds of cattle, make camp, and dream under the stars.

For two rambunctious twins, living on a boat means always being underfoot or overboard.

After learning that she has the power to communicate with rodents, ten-year-old Emmy seeks a way to stop Miss Barmy, an evil nanny who has been turned into a rat, from stealing jewels from Emmy's wealthy parents.

Ten year old Emmy and her rodent friends must fend off the evil former nanny, Miss Barmy, as they search for Ratty's missing mother.

Mom and Dad are going to make the new house themselves, from the ground up. From empty lot to finished home, every stage of their year-and-a-half-long building project is here. And at every step their lucky kids are watching and getting their hands dirty, in page after page brimming with machines, vehicles, and all kinds of house-making activities! As he imagines it through the eyes of his older sister, this is Jonathan Bean's retelling of his own...