Mary Lyn Ray

Every house has a story. This house-an old one hunkered in the deep grass below a wide country sky-is a waiting house. Once it was full of laughter and song. The sounds of life rang within its walls. Now it stands quiet and still. The house has sheltered many families over the years and remembers them fondly, especially the children. New families arrive to look, but none stay. Perhaps the house, too, now belongs to the Long Ago and Used to Be? Or...

"The farm's creatures prepare for night and rest"--

A girl who is in a woodland clearing to practice dancing spies a deer and observes how it leaps and turns.

Explores the ways thankfulness can find expression throughout the day.

While driving 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.

"This picture book celebrates, through words and images, the best birthday gift of all--a whole day that is yours to unwrap"-- "Wise and infinitely cozy, Mary Lyn Ray’s simple text and Cindy Derby’s fluid, playful illustrations invite readers of all ages to view that most extraordinary of ordinary days in a simple but festive new light, as if for the first time. What makes birthdays special? Whether you are turning three or one hundred and three,...

"A picture book biography of the four Moody sisters who designed and built fairy tale-like cottages in Santa Barbara in the 1930s and 1940s"--

Large, small, or as big as a mountain--somewhere there is a rock waiting for every single person.