Author(s): Darleen Bailey Beard; Nancy Carpenter (Illustrator); Darleen B. Beard

Picture Storybooks

Two children experience a tornado.

Although she sees them safely to the cellar, Mama has to leave Lucille and Natt and go help Mr. Lyle, an elderly neighbor. She tells the children not to open the door until she comes back. But Mama doesn't come back, and Lucille must comfort Natt throughout the terrifying experience of a tornado.