A collection of fast-paced stories that highlight the spooks and crooks, the dark and brooding, the exciting and mysterious Ozarks.

The book is a tribute by author Jane Shewmaker Hale to resilient mothers everywhere, and especially her own mother, Dorothy Inez, a devoted woman who spent every day instilling and reinforcing strong values in her children. Every Day is Mother's Day is told from little Jane Shewmaker's youthful viewpoint, recalling humorous and touching incidents and how her mother dealt with them. Every Day is Mother's Day is a delightful collection of vignettes about growing up in pre- and post-World War II middle America. Anyone who came of age after World War II or whose mother or grandmother grew up in that era will appreciate the memories that Every Day is Mother's Day evokes. The hardcover, 208-page book also mixes in original poetry, all with a mother theme, among the entertaining stories of Ms. Hale's childhood.

Jane's story of ordinary men remembered and cherished for some of their best moments of advice, tenderness, strength, honor, and discipline remains the heart of these stories. Jane and other daughters and sons eagerly share their heartfelt, warming, and

This coloring book is a companion to the storybook Beanyville.

Up! Up! Up! High on the hill in the tiny town of Beanyville, farmer Beans-a-million grows a bumper crop of one thousand beans. Pop! Pop! Pop! The beans don't stop till they are the farmer's best crop...except for one, teeny, weeny, baby bean. Why didn't this little bean grow? The farmer's wife wants to know. To market! To Market! Baby Bean in her pocket, Ima Beans-a-million and her husband go, with the other nine-hundred and ninety-nine beans in a row. No! No! No! There's not one perfect bean the buyers have seen. What will they do? What could this mean?