Books with author Janice May Udry

Mary Jo Wood suffered in silence through Show and Tell time when she really wanted to speak, knew that the teacher hoped she would and knew that her father expected her to. She even dreamed about it. Her problem is one of the widely shared blocks that can afflict early childhood -- a hesitancy born of shyness and low-self-assessment, because, even when Mary Jo was determined to speak, her last minute decision was always that her topic wasn't good enough or different enough. Read more about Mary Jo in "What Mary Jo Shared."