A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.

After a young boy discovers how many wonderful things he can fit into his new backpack, his family can't seem to locate some of their most important possessions.

George decides that his grumpy, selfish old grandmother must be a witch and concocts some marvelous medicine to take care of her.

Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life.

Sounds are heard from all sorts of different vehicles while waiting for Grandmother Rabbitty to arrive.

"A child, mother, and grandmother travel all the way to the end of the earth"--

Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.

"When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny)...