It was a golden, windy autumn day. The leaves swirled around the little girl and her mother. "Say it say it say it!" shouted the little girl. And her mother did say it—in all sorts of different ways—until at last she said it in exactly the way the little girl wanted to hear it!

Together Charlotte Zolotow and James Stevenson have created a love-filled paean as warming as the first fire of an autumn day.

From the dust jacket