Wondrous things happen when Anna Lavinia, a young girl who lives in a distant house behind a grove of pawpaw trees, sets off to travel to her aunt's house.
Three friends set out to visit their secret fort at the edge of the woods, but as they are enjoying the freedom and nature all around them a big storm rolls in.
The adventures of the puppet boy created by an old Italian woodcarver from a piece of wood that talked. Includes vocabulary notes in the margin, a brief biography of the author, and instructions for making a hand puppet.
Having decided that it is backward day, a boy dresses himself first in his coat, last in his socks, and continues in that way with the cooperation of his family.
A collection of twelve well-known fairy tales, retellings, and newly-imagined tales, collected and illustrated by the award-winning husband-and-wife author-illustrator team, Alice and Martin Provensen.
Miss Bianca, a white mouse of great beauty and self-confidence, travels with the ambassador's son to Norway on behalf of the Prisoner's Aid Society in a perilous mission to rescue a poet imprisoned in the dreadful Black Castle.
"When a tigress whose cubs were killed by hunters ravages villages, the king gathers his army but Lao Lao, a seer, advises him to send his son, Wen, to the tiger, instead." -- (Source of summary not specified)
On a magic moonlit night, the sleek, shiny automatic new car and the beat-up old car with many miles on its speedometer go for a drive to see which car is the best.
Wee Gillis couldn't decide whether he wanted to be a Highlander and stalk stags, like his father, or a Lowlander like his mother, and raise long-haired cows.