Carol Joan MonPere was an Award-winning screenwriter and producer whose work romanticized California's Central Valley and championed strong feminist characters.
A mouse and his child, the two parts of a single small wind-up toy, go on a quest to become "self-winding".
An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home.
A desperate mother becomes detective to solve her 5 year-old daughter's death. The authorities suspect that the girl has been killed by a well-known person of the family.