Helen Plum Library

Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem worthy, choose careers we consider meaningful, and patronize businesses and buy products we believe make the world a better place. Unfortunately, we often base these decisions on assumptions and emotions rather than facts. As a result, even our best intentions often lead to ineffective?and sometimes downright harmful?outcomes. How can we do better? While...

In this wordless picture book, a young girl takes a train and makes a stop at a most unusual place where she has an important task to perform

Rat brothers Louie and Ralphie Ratso try to prove they can be as rough and tough as their father in the Big City, but every time they try to show how tough they are, they end up accidentally doing good deeds instead

Is Bear friend or foe? When Bear finds a chicken frozen in the winter snow, he brings her home to defrost her. As Chicken thaws--um, awakens--she fears that Bear is actually preparing to eat her. Oh no! Will Chicken become Bear's lunch? Or does Bear have a different plan in mind?

Helpful Betty the hippopotamus hears a cry and sets off to rescue a monkey she assumes is stuck up in a tree

Hank Hammer and the tool team are ready to build a birdhouse

Tia Tape Measure helps measure shelves so the new library books can be put away

When Little Critter finds out that one of his neighbors is in need, he rallies his friends and family together to volunteer their help, in an early reader title about community service