Rylant, Cynthia Group

In a rainbow-colored station wagon this 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 go away, they were sad, but not for ...

There is no night so dark, so black as night in the country. And while the people dream of daytime things, the nighttime world awakens. Owls swoop, a rabbit patters, and in the yard an apple falls -- pump! -- from the tree.

Pay attention. Go to the window. Across the field a light glows. Who else is up so late? Who else watches and ...

The first book in the acclaimed simple-to-read series featuring Henry and his lovable 180-pound dog, Mudge.

Here are twelve deeply moving short stories from the perceptive pen of Cynthia Rylant. Every captures the moment when someone's life changes -- when an animal causes a human being to see things in a different way, and, perhaps, changes his life.

What's wrong together with Henry's new tree house?

In Henry and Mudge's twenty-first adventure, Henry's Uncle Jake has built him a tree house. Henry loves tree houses, but Mudge can't climb trees. What fun is a tree house if you can't share it together with your excellent friend?

Henry and his 180-pound dog Mudge are excellent friends forever. And in this sixth book of their adventures, they share a fun-filled day at the beach.