Garth Williams

Nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State at the end of the nineteenth century. He raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.

A collection of ballads, folk songs, dances, minstrel- show tunes, old hymns and gospel songs provides a musical profile of American pioneers.

Harry Cat loves the theater, but when he becomes the star of a Broadway play he and his best friend Tucker Mouse miss one another terribly.