The Relatives Came

In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars.
When they finally had to leave, they were sad, but not for long. They all knew they would be together next summer.

• When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
• Roller Coaster
• Scaredy Squirrel
• The Old Woman Who Named Things
• Ice Bear: Read and Wonder: In the Steps of the Polar Bear
• Fireflies
• Shortcut
• Wemberly Worried
• Hooway for Wodney Wat
• Bat Loves the Night: Read and Wonder