Alice promises her grandfather that she will travel, live by the sea and do something to make the world more beautiful. She travels, settles by the sea and then scatters lupine seeds along the coast.
When her brothers say she doesn’t know how to build a fort, Ruby says she will learn, and she does, cutting and hammering with her mother and grandmother. She does the work she said she would do.
The hen’s housemates, a cat, a dog and a mouse, won’t help, so she says she will do it herself: plant and tend the wheat, then make the flour into a cake. Each time she says she will do a job, she does it.
Lola sets out to show she can care for a cat, then does the preparation: reading about cats at the library, getting advice at the rescue shelter and setting up a home for Makeda.
We start with parent and educator recommendations, check available story details, and explain the value fit in our own words. The source link on each book shows where we found it.