While a boy in North America urges his father not to cut down the trees where the wood thrush lives, a boy in South America awaits the return of the bird that he calls "la flauta" for its flute-like song.

A star is how you know it s almost night. As soon as you see one, there s another, and another. And the dark that comes doesn t feel so dark. What if you could have a star?

Explores the ways thankfulness can find expression throughout the day.

A child describes all the things there are to do on a rainy day.

While drivng on an imaginary car trip to Far Away, a child encounters winding roads, a toll both, bridges, and the Fix-It Garage before stopping for lunch and a nap.

As a child, Elva asks for a violin so that she can make beautiful music but many years pass before her dream can come true.

Rosie, a little dog, is afraid of nothing except thunder and during one very bad storm, she discovers that the boy who she lives with is frightened, too.

Explores the ways thankfulness can find expression throughout the day.

A house sits in a field under the ever-changing sky. For a while the house was full of laughter and children and the sounds of lives being lived under its roof. And then, for a long time, it was empty and quiet. New people came to look, but they always left. Will anyone come to stay?

A man harvests and sells a bountiful crop of pumpkins so that he will be able to preserve a field from developers.