A young boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves the seeds to make another house the next year.

A child reflects on how a small, striped gray seed eventually becomes a strong, beautiful sunflower.

The seeds scattered by a mother and her child as they walk through the park on a cold winter day feed a pair of cardinals and grow into a plant that feeds their babies the next summer.

Sal, a very big girl, cannot sew a quilt like Gran's no matter how hard she tries, but eventually she finds that her talents lie elsewhere.

Annie Jamison is the sister who keeps the peace. So when her mother goes missing, Annie's the one sent to retrieve her. There's one problem. It seems the town Willa Jamison ran off to doesn't exist, only sunflowers in the middle of a field.

"Mother Nature has a cunning plan and, much to Emma's delight, a discarded sunflower seed snuggled deep in the soil grows through the different seasons and emerges on her birthday"--