Cynthia Rylant

Poppleton the pig goes to the beach, solves a dry skin mystery, and learns that friends are the secret to a long life.

God created Dog Heaven, a place where dogs can eat ice cream biscuits, sleep on fluffy clouds, and run through unending fields.

The text from the King James Bible will be very familiar to many readers, but Rylant's artwork makes the story fresh and offers a unique new visual perspective.

After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.