Children's Literature Chris Van Allsburg's, The Stranger, is the tale of the Bailey family and a mysterious visitor they receive one year during early autumn. It is told from the by an unknown narrator, but this unnamed narrator tells the story from the daughter Katy Bailey's point-of-view. One night the father accidentally hit a stranger in the road and brought him home to recover. Although the stranger never spoke a word the entire time he was with the family, he seemed to be happy during his short stay. This stranger acted in the most strange ways as well, as if he was new to the planet. The stranger also seemed to have an unnatural effect on the plant life surrounding the farm. It was early autumn and other trees had already changed to fall colors, but the trees on the farm did not change from green to orange and yellow as they should have done. This brought about an internal conflict within the stranger as he noticed that the trees on the farm had not changed color and thought that something was wrong. He finally came to realize that he was somehow causing the family's farm to remain unchanged, and that he had to leave the farm for things to return to the natural cycle. The concept of self-sacrifice is introduced to the reader as the stranger must sacrifice his happiness for the sake of the family and their farm. The story climaxes as the stranger appears at breakfast dressed in his old shabby clothes and the family realizes that he is leaving. The day after the stranger left, the trees on the farm suddenly...

But while the stranger does not return, every autumn from then on the trees on the family's farm do not change color with the rest of the trees but remains green for an extra week before changing color.
Tuff Fluff: The Case of Duckie's Missing Brain, by Scott Nash, is a detective story set in an imaginary world of stuffed animals. The animals are divided into those filled with stuffing and those that are filled with beans. Tuff Fluff, the stuffed rabbit detective, is hired to discover who stole the brain of another stuffed animal, Duckie. Since Duckie was filled with stuffing, Tuff Fluff immediately suspected the bean filled animals, and when he discovered a bean on the floor of Duckie's house, he went in search of the bean stuffed animals. Here the concept of preconception is introduced when Tuff Fluff immediately acts on his preconceptions and blames the bean stuffed animals. However the bean stuffed animals explained how they were innocent and accidentally left a bean behind when they were listening to Duckie read stories. This is the clue Tuff Fluff needs as he returns to Duckie's house and discovers his brain, which is actually a bunch of stuffing, inside one of the books. However, at the moment of resolution, there is a complication as Duckie's friend, Big Stuff, accidentally inhales Duckie's stuffing brain. This conflict is resolved as Big Stuff donates some of his stuffing so that Duckie can have a brain. This story…