A little girl with a big voice who lives in a nineteenth-century whaling town finds a way to be useful and happy aboard a sailing ship.

Fannie Farmer is a mother's helper in the Shaw house, where the daughter gives her the idea of writing down precise instructions for measuring an

While following their mother through town, five little ducklings fall into a storm drain.

Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correctio