Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.

When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.

Can one child's good deed change the world? It can when she's Ordinary Mary -- an ordinary girl from an ordinary school, on her way to her ordinary house -- who stumbles upon ordinary blueberries. When she decides to pick them for her neighbor, Mrs. Bishop, she starts a chain reaction that multiplies around the world.

A young boy who screams except while eating takes over the cooking, and proves so talented that his parents open a restaurant with him as head chef.

"Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, Jennifer Keelan grew up battling-and overcoming-the limitations others set for her. From a lack of cutaway curbs and bus lifts to being denied enrollment at her neighborhood school, Jennifer was continually blocked from living the life she wanted. But after discovering the world of disability rights activism, she knew she had to use her voice to change things. When Jennifer was just eight years old, she participated...