When Michael gets home from school, and his mother asks him about his day, he regales her with stories about his classmates, stories that celebrate bodily functions. Michael tells his mother about the booger that comes to decorate the top of a birthday cookie, she responds with, “Don’t say that word!” Michael fairs [...]
The Once Upon a TIMES reports that Princess Vera is deathly ill, and that her father, the King, is frantic. Fortunately, Libby Gaberchik, fairy and healer, knows just what is wrong with the dear girl. Love. The princess is starved for it.
So Libby tells the king that Vera must eat three perfect peaches and marry [...]
When Mélanie Watt, the award-winning author and illustrator of Scaredy Squirrel, tries to write a book about a mouse, her story is taken over by a large tortoiseshell cat named Chester. Armed with a red marker, Chester packs the mouse onto an air plane destined for someplace far, far away, and moves into the story. [...]
David loves his Bubbie, and loves to visit her in her apartment above the Kuni Lemmel Bagel Shop. But he dreads going to see her on his birthday because each and every year, David’s Bubbie give him the same present for his birthday, a gift he neither wants nor appreciates. She gives him a stiff, [...]
Eleven-year old Griffin Bing is the Man with the Plan, the kid who can figure out a solution to every problem. But his parents are facing a financial disaster that seems to be beyond even his organizational cunning. His inventor father has come up with the SmartPick, a device that is sure to be a [...]
Mr. Gum lives in a great old disaster of a house in the village of Lamonic Bibber. A nasty, lazy old man with filthy habits, he hates housework, animals (other than insects) and most of the village people, except Billy William the Third, a butcher whose shop is as smelly and unpleasant as Mr. Gum’s [...]
Eleven year-old Princess Jill, sister to King Jack and daughter to Mother Goose, is spoilt and impulsive and prone to trying to sneak out of doing her chores, but she’s also brave and smart and determined, so, when she receives a message from someone known only as F.G., urgently asking for her help in the [...]
Princess Esmeralda is the despair of her mother. Lacking in the social graces, clumsy and bored by self-absorbed suitors, she prefers exploring the flora and fauna of the swamp and visiting her aunt Grassina, a witch, to attending formal balls. When she trips and frightens away some grasshoppers in the swamp one day, [...]
In this sequel to the wonderful Kaspar Snit, Eleanor and her brother Solly, a.k.a. Googoo Man, learn that their parents have decided to take a holiday and leave them at home with a nanny. Annoyed that she cannot go with her parents to Tuscany, Eleanor is certain that Mrs. Leer, the nanny, is going [...]
Toby Tucker has lived with foster parents Don and Evie Allen for three weeks and figures he may at last have found a family. Toby knows nothing about who he is and where he comes from. All he has to connect him to his past is an old chest full of torn pieces [...]
