Papaw--who lives near old Fort Craig, a battlesite of the Civil War--teaches his two grandsons a better game than playing soldier in a deeply moving picture book by the creators of
Farmer Puckett's custom of hauling a wagonload of fireworks to the fairgrounds for the Independence Day Social is endangered when his stubborn new mule Jake Johnson refuses to move. By the author of
A young boy notices that his bizarre neighbor Melville Murrell--the first person to construct a flying machine--has a penchant for conversing with birds and jumping off of walls flapping cabbage leaves....