The berry-picking man
By: Jane Buchanan ; pictures by Leslie Bowman.
Contributors: Bowman, Leslie W., ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Empathy -- Fiction.; Old age -- Fiction.; Family life -- Fiction.; Berries -- Fiction.; Christmas -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Nine-year-old Meggie resents spending time with a strange, smelly old man who calls her mother whenever he needs a ride, but when Christmas finds him in the hospital she knows what she must do.