“Contents,” Friend, May 1978
Stories and Features
Exploring
Double BlessingAlice Stratton
One Sunny DayMary Daem
Friend to Friend: A Dutch Boy Named AlmaElder Jacob de Jager
Friends in the News
How Mama Became a Horse DoctorSue Humphrey
SilhouettesLilja Hellin
The Dragon Who Lost His FireFrances B. Watts
A Hero to Follow: Excitement in the WoodsMargery S. Cannon and Lurene G. Wilkinson
A Surprise for the Fair
The Late Great Beanie McBridePeter James Freeman
That Magic SmileSherrie Johnson
Our Creative Friends
Mother’s Best NurseMargaret G. Mosher
Verse
The Mother’s Day TreeLinda Sillitoe
SunSolveig Paulson Russell
The Sun Walks In His CastleEthel Jacobsen
Music
When Mother BakesAnna Johnson and Vanja Y. Watkins
Things to Make and Do
Funstuf
Meals for Young Cooks
Hidden PicturesLen Epstein
May Calendar
Mother’s Day GiftsMarie Latta
A Surprise for the Fair
Paper Doll—1960
Rock art on cover created by the following children from Bountiful, Utah: Dawn Anderson, age 11; Jenny Westergard, age 7; Audra Lynette Poulson, age 7; Jody Cutler, age 8; Crystal Leishman, age 9; Kathryn Cline, age 9; Robert Cline, age 11; Christian Affleck, age 7.