Wendy Watson

A story in which a family prepares for and enjoys Easter, combined with both traditional and literary rhymes.

A family gets ready for Halloween, preparing costumes, making goodies for the school party, and carving jack-o'lanterns. Halloween jokes and rhymes are interspersed throughout the text.

Maybelle, Jack, and Eddie want to help Ma by putting something extra on the table, so they set out in the dark to take potatoes from a nearby field, but when they arrive home and empty their potato sacks, they are surprised by what they see.

Four little foxes prepare a cake and a Valentine surprise for their parents.