How Come? Puzzles a moving novel about the

a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us

he writes about how his uncle hung onto the multitudinous Democratic votes of the Ratherton clan while at the very same time keeping them from shooting Davis' squirrels in a lean year

The adventures of a mouse stowed away on a ship voyage

and other works from the collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Emphasizing values of ingenuity and old-fashioned

How Come? Puzzles a moving novel about theFor every kid who really wants to knowand for every exasperated parent who simply doesn't knowhere is a lively omnium gatherum of explanations to the most frequently asked questions about our world, from "Why do stars twinkle?" to "What are hiccups? "Taken from Kathy Wollard's popular column, "How Come?" (seen for the past six years in Newsday and recently syndicated nationally through the Los Angeles Times), How Come? explains why cats can survive