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Includes three humorous stories in verse, Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, and The Big Brag, followed by commentary and end notes, reproductions of illustrations from other Dr.

In the ancient kingdom of Parnall, sixteen-year-old Sam Hatcher and an eccentric Royal Guard set out on a mission to rescue the rightful king who has been imprisoned in a faraway dungeon by his evil brother.

Charlie Bucket, having won Willie Wonka's chocolate factory, has gone to collect his family in the great glass elevator, but things go wrong on the return to the factory and Charlie, his parents, two sets of grandparents, and Mr.

Bunyip Bluegum, an adventurous Australian koala bear, meets up with a sailor, a penguin, and their magic pudding, which is in constant danger of being stolen.

Combines four novels by children's book writer and National Public Radio commentator Daniel Pinkwater into one volume.

The King, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky, but when oobleck falls, in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves the kingdom 1950 Caldecott Honor , Destiny(106) , Humorous , Fantasy , Stories in rhyme , Kings and rulers , Awards , Humorous fiction , DestinyShortSiteName(HFMA) , Nonsense verses , Fiction , SPCVES , Fantasies , Destiny(204) , Local , Caldecott Honor book , Fantasy fiction , Book Adventure 3 , Precipitation (Meteorology) , Apologizing , Fantasy - Juvenile fiction , Level P , Humorous stories , Weather.

Accompanied by his sardonic buffalope Max, seventeen-year-old Sebastian Darke meets a spoiled princess and a diminutive soldier who aid in his quest to become court jester to the evil King Septimus.

Alison, aging and ill, looks back on her life as a teenage fashion model in Paris and Rome, the crash of her career, and her move to New York where she met and formed a memorable friendship with the remarkable, eccentric Veronica, a woman suffering from AIDS.

Unjustly imprisoned by the Hooded Fang and other big people, Jacob Two-Two awaits the aid of the members of Child Power to free him and two hundred other children.

When Jacob Two-Two's father brings him back a small lizard from Kenya, it grows to enormous proportions, and to protect his now identifiable Diplodocus from frightened grown-ups, Jacob runs away with him to British Columbia.

A little, furry "hero" named Frito is forced by the wizard of Goodgulf to undertake the one mission which can save Lower Middle Earth from enslavement by the evil Sorhed.

David climbs the hill behind his house and meets the Phoenix that lives there, and together they embark on a series of adventures that includes finding ways to outwit the scientist who wants to capture and study the mythical bird.

Lavender sees herself as the miserable but tough outsider at school, while Scarlet knows she is talented and popular, but insecure on the inside--then, on their mutual thirteenth birthday, they wake up in each other's bodies and are forced to learn what it means to walk in someone else's shoes.

Now acclimated to life as a thirteen-year-old Earthling, Dirk Lloyd has contacted his home in the Darklands but so has his friend Sooz, who is forming her own alliances.

"Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy and a team of other twelve-year-olds travel the globe to find the rest of the Manigica team so they can defeat the Pale Queen and save the world from destruction"--Provided by publisher.