A community of mice and a cheese-loving cat form an unlikely alliance at London's Cheshire Cheese, an inn where Charles Dickens finds inspiration and Queen Victoria makes an unexpected appearance.

A collection of traditional tales about dogs from around the world, arranged in such categories as "The Trickster Dog," "The Enchanted Dog," and "The Super Dog."

An illustrated biography of young Samuel Clemens, who grew up to be the writer known as Mark Twain.

"Dunkirk has fallen, the Americans have not yet entered the war, and King Arthur and his Knights of the Table Round are hip-deep in the fighting. Churchill and the new chaps think they are running things. A re-telling of Le Morte d́ʹArthur. . . sublime comedy and dark romance."--Publisher's description

When Grandpa tells a boy and his sister why he prays so much they stop thinking that he is just a boring old man.

Presents information about twenty animals with unusual names and habits, including the loris, okapi, viscacha, and zorilla.

A young boy living in mid-nineteenth century Missouri relates the many adventures that he and his friend, an escaped slave, experience as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft

A young girl describes the summer of 1912 when her little sister gets very sick and when unusual creatures that look like small flying dogs come from the Don River to her home in Toronto.

A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.