Julie Edwards

With help from an eccentric professor who gives their imaginations special intensive training, three children succeed in locating the last of the great Whangdoodles and granting his heart's desire.

For ten-year-old Mandy, the old stone orphanage was the only home she remembered. Matron Bridie was kind to her, but there were thirty children to look after, and sometimes Mandy felt there was something missing. One day Mandy climbed over the high orphanage wall and found a tiny, deserted cottage in the woods. Here at last was her very own home. All through the spring, summer, and fall, Mandy worked to make it truly hers. Sometimes she "borrowed" things she needed from the orphanage. Sometimes, to guard her secret, she even lied. Then one stormy night at the cottage, Mandy got sick, and no one knew how to find her--except a special friend she didn't know she had.

Even though Gerry is cast as the court jester instead of the crystal princess in her ballet class's spring performance, she eventually regains her sparkle and once again feels like a fairy princess.

After being separated from her brothers and sisters, a very small cat named Bo falls in with a sailor and becomes a ship's cat, having various adventures at sea.

A little cat and her owner travel through France in search of work, finding great adventure and, finally, good fortune.

The little cat called Bonnie Boadicea and her new owner find great adventure while traveling along the coast of Italy, where Bo continues to seek her missing sister and joins the circus--at least for a while.

When Mrs. Barnes declares that "It's Apple Day," Dumpy wants to help and finally gets his chance once all of the apples are picked and made into pies, apple butter, and candy apples.

Despite her scabby knees and dirty fingernails, Geraldine knows that she is a princess inside and shows it through her behavior at home and in school.

After helping to foil a hijacking on their yacht, Bo the cat, her friend Panache, and owner Billy Bates sail to London for an audience with the Queen.