On the first morning of the harvest, Amira is allowed to pick with the grown-ups for the first time, and Jadda, her grandmother, talks the whole way to the fields: about the roses, the river, the wind, where the scent is strongest and why. Amira half listens. Then, following a hoopoe bird down th...

Florence's big sister Émilie is better at everything. Faster on skis, taller, first to find the eggs, and every spring the winner of the family taffy pull at the sugar shack, where the syrup is poured on snow and rolled onto a stick and the best roll wins a wooden spoon carved by Pépère. Florence...