A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
Mirette was always fascinated by the strange and interesting people who stayed in her mother's boarding house. But no one excited her as much as Bellini, who walks the clothesline with the grace and ease of a bird.
Ms. Frizzle, an unflappable science teacher, drives the magical school bus into a cloud where the children shrink to the size of water droplets and follow the course of water through the city's waterworks system.
Alex feels that he does not have much in common with his stepfather Jake until a fuzzy spider brings them together.
A poetic account of the legendary Babe Ruth as he prepares to make a home run.
A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well.
The fascinating story is about an intensely curious and intelligent girl, who literally spies on people and writes about them in her secret notebook, trying to make sense of life's absurdities.
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By all accounts, Eloise is an extraordinary child. Who else has spent her lifetime in New York's Plaza Hotel with all of its amenities? Eloise charms us with her precocious nature and her ability to transform an adult world into a giant playground.
Eight-year old Joe is about to become a big brother when he meets Mika from planet Eljo, where children hatch out of eggs and life in general is quite different from what Joe knows.
Rabbi Loew shapes a giant man of clay--a golem--and brings him to life to defend the Jews of Prague from their persecutors, revealing the consequences of unleashing power beyond human control.