Eugenie Fernandes

A young kitten explores the wilderness as other animals celebrate spring.

Animals in the wild and on the farm scramble to avoid the rain. Will the kitten make it home before it is soaked?

In this addition to the CitizenKid™ collection of inspiring stories from around the globe, Mimi Malaho and her family help bring basic health care to their community. By making small changes like sleeping under mosquito nets and big ones like building a clinic with outside help, the Malahos and their neighbors transform their Kenyan village from one afraid of illness to a thriving community.

Mother and Heather take the baby for a fantastic walk, trying to get the baby to go to sleep.

Based on a true story about a young Kenyan boy whose mother left him but had named him Muthini which meant suffering because he was born with no fingers on his left hand and only two on his right. Many times he was made fun of or avoided which hurt him deeply. He lives with his very elderly grandmother, his Nyanya, along with many cousins whose parents had either died or left them. They are extremely poor and there is never enough money or food, but...

While on a cross-country train trip, Jesse slips away from the sleeper and visits the engineer as he drives the train though the darkness, past the wild animals.

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, k, p, e.