"The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography."--BOOK JACKET. "Her life is vivid with incident, and yet she feels...

The theme of identity and guises run through this collection of twenty-two short stories.

All kinds of insects compete to see who is the "bugliest" bug of all, but there is a sinister surprise behind the contest.

A child imagines herself a princess and contrasts her everyday life with the one she could have in a castle with infinitely permissive parents.

Rhyming text follows six little wombats on walkabout and a hungry dingo following, envisioning them as his lunch until the wombats turn the tables on him.

A collection of poems on such important events in the history of the United States as the Pilgrims' landing in Massachusetts, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, Seward's Folly, the San Francisco earthquake, and more.

A collection of twenty-three humorous poems about school including such titles as "Math my Way," "Clockwatching," and "School Daze Rap."