James Stevenson

The sixth in James Stevenson's series of "Corn Books" is fat, full, robust, healthy, and full of energy. But don't worry, this sixth entry is also wry, magical, surprising, witty, and subversive. Twenty-five brand-new Stevenson poems paired with signature Stevenson pictures.

Two stories--the first featuring three pugnacious walruses, the second, a stranded penguin.

Hubie and his family take the Broadway Blazer to the 1939 World's Fair, but Hubie gets off and has a series of adventures.

With the help of her friends, and after a few false starts, a young witch named Emma learns to fly on her broom.

The author recalls the summers he and his brother spent at their grandparents house near the beach.

The author remembers special times that he and his daughter shared as she was growing up.

Mean witches Dolores and Lavinia torment Emma and her friends and retreat to the cool comfort of the beach, but their victims strike back with a creative form of revenge.

A lonely rat is befriended by a chipmunk and squirrel at an amusement park and when his fortunes change he must decide how important that friendship is.

During a family vacation, Hubie the mouse falls out of a dirigible and is stranded on a tropical island, where a very inventive fellow castaway, Leo, helps him overcome his fears.

When a girl who loves to read fairy tales is transported back to medieval times, she finds that the life of a princess in a castle is less fun than she imagined.