Growing up in a small Russian town in the late 1800s, Marc doesn't know what art is. He doesn't even know what drawing is, until one of his schoolmates shows him how to trave a picture in a magazine. Marc loves how happy tracing makes him, but he doesn't want to draw pictures that other people have already made. He wants to make pictures no one has ever seen before - his uncle Noah on the roof,…
Miss Hickory is very worried. Her owner has moved to Boston, and how can Miss Hickory survive a harsh New Hampshire winter all alone? After all, she is just a doll whose body is an apple-wood twig and whose head is a hickory nut, and whose house is made out of corncobs.rnBut Miss Hickory has ingenuity, and the help of neighbors like Crow, Bull Frog, and Ground Hog to see her through. And near t…