Forced to stay indoors during a rainstorm, young Sam drinks hot chocolate, reads and dreams of adventures while his Granddad does paperwork until the need to mail an important letter triggers an adventure into the wet outdoors

"It's the hottest day of the year, hotter than broccoli soup, hotter than the Atacama Desert, hotter than the surface of the sun. It's just the right kind of day for a boy and his grandad to go for a picnic. But as the sun beats down, Grandad keeps having to stop for a rest, and by the time they find the perfect picnic spot, some pirates have beaten them to it. Good job they have enough food to share!" --From the publisher.

When a boy and his granddad take care of a little bird, the boy wants to keep it - but Granddad knows it must return to its natural habitat in the wild, where it can spread its wings and be free. And so begins an exhilarating journey into the mountains to return the bird to where it belongs.

"A boy and his granddad set off with their homemade sled to find a lost dog on a snowy afternoon. And so begins an exhilarating adventure ..."--

A little boy, desperate to be first out in the snow, has one obstacle in his way, his slow-moving grandfather. "Una sorpresa aguarda al niño u al abuelo en este extraordinario día de nieve."--Page 4 of cover.