Margot Tomes

The children's author provides a fictionalized, but historically accurate, account of her childhood in 1920s China.

On a hot, humdrum day Ty meets a man who, using a washboard, comb, spoons, and pail, fills that night with music.

Discusses the voyages of Christopher Columbus who determined to beat everyone in the race to the Indies.

A young boy uses a witch hazel branch to make a scarecrow and has a mysterious encounter on the night of the harvest moon.

A cunning little girl named Drizzle rescues her town from the bedlam created by the mysterious Shadowmaker, a wizard who makes new shadows for people.

A retelling of the Slavic folktale in which the Month Brothers' magic helps Little Sister fulfill seemingly impossible tasks which prove the undoing of her greedy stepmother and stepsister.

Everyone tells the boy he's good for nothing until he rescues a wise cat and helps save an island from a plague of mice.

Looking for a soup bone on Halloween, a little old lady finds a hungry skeleton instead.

Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by an illustration and appropriate poem or a phrase from a poem.