Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds...

When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons.

Invites the reader to tap, rub, touch, and wiggle illustrations to make an apple tree bloom, produce fruit, and lose its leaves.

Throughout the seasons the workers at the Village Garage are busy taking care of the town and its residents.

A tree tells why, out of all four seasons, autumn is the hardest.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a family of bears from one spring to the next. Includes facts about bears.

"Introduces concepts and vocabulary of fall--autumn colors, changes in plants and animals ... and wind, which soon leads to the next season"--

Follows the changing seasons in a forest as trees and animals are nourished and are dependent on each other.

"A diverse group of children have fun enjoying the highlights of all four seasons"--

Presents five short adventures in which a spunky young girl named Lilly enjoys spring, summer, fall, winter, and spring again.