William Pène du Bois

Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.

In his only work of political satire, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippins wife, Queen Marie, who might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau,...

"Recounts the traditional story of the tortoise and the hare and an original episode in which the tortoise attempts to obtain the hare's liver for the Fish Queen." --

The town policeman, in a huff, locks up a show troupe and a young detective contrives to set them free without hurting the policeman's feelings. He discovers, however, that they actually are criminals and he must get them behind bars again.

A 274 pound thirteen-year-old boy whose sole passion is food is miserable when sent to boarding school until he accidentally gets on the hockey team.

Bored with his life on the merry-go-round, a little wooden horsedecides to run away.

Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II.

"A house mouse who thinks there must be more to life than looking for food and caring for her family befriends a lonely, caged dove." --

"Jamie wins the coveted role of a shepherd in the school Christmas play. When a blizzard cancels the show he is heartbroken." --