Audrey Penn

When Chester tells his mother about the school bully, she asks him to gather his friends to hear a story about getting along with people who are prickly.

When Chester the raccoon is worried to be apart from his mother, she teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.

Chester Raccoon is very unhappy about leaving his home, a tree that has been marked by tree cutters, but his mother tries to convince him that their new home might be even better.

Kai is a small, green and white pumper truck who does not fit in with the other fire trucks at Firehouse #10, but when a forest fire breaks out, it is Kai who puts out the fire in the underbrush.

A family in the Old Country hopes to recreate the miracle of the first Hanukkah by making a small jar of cooking oil last long enough to make a treat for each of the eight nights.

"Chester Raccoon goes to his first sleepover and enjoys a day of fun and games with his friends. But when it is time to go to sleep, Chester feels his mother's love through his Kissing Hand, but still misses his home. Chester goes home and Mrs. Raccoon assures him he came home at just the right time"--