General Store Author:Rachel Field, Giles Laroche (Illustrator) A girl imagines the general store she will own someday and all the things for sale in it, from bolts of calico to bunches of bananas. A little girl said, "Someday I'm going to have a store with a tinkly bell hung over the door . . .It will be my store and I will say: "What can I do for you today?"