Lola's friends tease and laugh at her when she tells them that her parents call her by such nicknames as Babycake, Sweetie Pie, and Fairy Princess. She doesn't understand why they're laughing; doesn't everyone have a silly little name? Still, when Lola gets home from school, she finds that she can't enjoy her parents' loving names for her anymore. That is, until her friend Lulu makes a surprising confession. In this heartwarming tale of generosity and tenderness, Lola discovers that nicknames are made to be shared! "From the Hardcover edition.

Lola the hamster is back in this heartwarming companion to "I Love You So Much!"--now in paperback. In this heartwarming tale of generosity and tenderness, Lola discovers one of the greatest joys of nicknames: They're made to be shared! Full color.

Sweetie Pie Song Bird is an abstract poetry collection that focuses on the charming side of nature. Through the usage of descriptive narration, the reader will meet characters that experience colorful sights and sounds of settings that magically come to life. Views of the author are connected throughout the poems, bringing the reader on a little journey from dawn to night. The poems in Sweetie Pie Song Bird focus on the celebration of life. The stories conveyed in each poem are light and whimsical and yet surprisingly thought provoking. Themes of friendship and joy depict a special sound of laughter throughout each page. In sounding out the sweeter things in life, the title character, Song Bird, tells of some unique tales one can experience in nature that might just have been overlooked. Sweetie Pie Song Bird enhances a picture of nature through the use of rhyming words, leaving a vivid picture of a serene place or an imagined far-off land.

From two-time Caldecott winner Chris Van Allsburg, creator of Jumanji and The Polar Express, comes a poignant story of one hamster's struggle with destiny. Being a pet store hamster isn't much fun for Sweetie Pie, but life in human homes proves downright perilous. As Sweetie Pie longingly gazes out of his cage at the squirrels frolicking in the trees, he wonders if he'll ever have the chance to feel the wind in his fur. Allsburg's expressive, soft-hued illustrations artfully capture a hamster's-eye view of the wide and wonderful world where maybe, just maybe, Sweetie Pie could someday run free.

A young Scottish doctor looks back on the unforgettable characters who became his patients in East Texas. Qualified as a doctor only 18 months before, he leaves the security of his medical school, his hospital and his heritage to start a single-handed rural practice in the wilds of Texas—his only resources: his ex-flight attendant, pregnant wife and their year-old baby. They exchanged their city sophistication for a rustic life, their temperate climate for the appalling heat and humidity of Texas, and their culture and language for a behavior and speech based on one of America's last frontiers. Deceived by those who invited them to American and left briefly penniless; befriended by a nearby village without medical help and miles from a hospital, they cared for their new patients, covering, in an old Ford with a hole in the floor, a house-call area larger than New Hampshire and Rhode Island combined. Like their patients, they survived. Because they had each other.

A little girl spends time with her Poppy and Nana and answers to two very different nicknames.

Since her parents are too busy in the morning to listen to her say that she love them, Lola the hamster waits all day long for another opportunity to say the words.