No-nonsense Captain Swashby is used to the sea meeting all of his needs and when, after his retirement, new neighbors disturb his solitary life, the sea helps in just the right way.

Annie searches the neighborhood for her red mitten, the fifth she's lost this winter.

"Some people have dresses for every occasion but Afiya needs only one. Her dress records the memories of her childhood, from roses in bloom to pigeons in flight, from tigers at the zoo to October leaves falling. A joyful celebration of a young girl's childhood, written by the late Coretta Scott King Book Award-winning Jamaican poet James Berry"--

Finds the riotous bunnies of Sunny Town zooming around on the bus past the bus stop, the swings and the crosswalk before hopping away for more mischief.