Books with author Pamela Lofts

Teach children ages 4 to 7 the power of a novena and saintly intercession with this engaging picture book about the Sisters of Loretto. When they had no way of accessing their choir loft in the Loretto chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the sisters prayed a novena through St. Joseph's intercession. Soon after, a mysterious man appeared and built them a miraculous staircase with two 360-degree turns, no center support, and made only of rare wood.

When a mysterious egg appears outside Hunwick's burrow after a terrible storm, no one knows what to do with it. And when it doesn't hatch right away, everyone is even more bewildered. Everyone, that is, but Hunwick. For Hunwick understands the egg. It is his friend. And he is the only one who knows its secret. From the author and illustrator of the modern classic Koala Lou, here is a moving tale of loneliness, friendship, and most of all, the power the imagination has to change the way we see the world.

When her father, a Maine lighthouse keeper, is transferred to a station on a barren island far offshore, Sarah is quick to note how much her mother misses the flowers she used to grow in her garden on the mainland. Determined to reverse her mother's melancholy, the girl hatches a plot to put soil in the cracks and crevices of the ledge and to plant seeds there. Lo and behold, they bloom, delighting not only Sarah's family but also the local fishermen. The book is based on a true story about the light at Mount Desert Rock around the turn of the nineteenth century.