New York Review Books children's collection
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The rescuers
Two enterprising mice live up to the motto of the Rescue Aid Society, "We help anyone ... anywhere," when they rescue a kidnapped orphan.
The sorely trying day
When Father comes home at the end of a sorely trying day, he finds all the family fighting and scolding after a sequence of events for which no one is willing to take the blame.
Lizard Music
When left to take care of himself, a young boy becomes involved with a community of intelligent lizards who tell him of a little known invasion from outer space.
The 13 Clocks
"There has never been anything like this before, and there will never be anything like this again…[Thurber] takes such delight in the words. It's like it's written by somebody who wants to infect you with his love of words. There are poems hidden in the text. There are places where it wanders into rhyme and out again. There are all of the invented words. The story itself is nonsense in the finest possible way." —Neil Gaiman, interviewed in The Wall Street Journal
Ounce, dice, trice
A collection of old and new words, including those to be said in singing moods, words for times of day, and rude names for nitwits. Defines such words as gongoozler, tantony, and oosse.
Foxie
A lost dog's luck makes him fat and famous, but when given a chance he proves he still thinks there is no place like home.
The silver nutmeg
One dull, dry day Anna Livinia meets Toby, who invites her into the wondrous world on the other side of Dew Pond, where she encounters an uncanny fortuneteller, experiences the fun of no gravity, and hears Aunt Cornelia's tale of her beloved who disappeared into Anna's world.
Something for Christmas
A little mouse searches for just the right Christmas gift for his mother.
Carbonel and Calidor
When Calidor rejects his life of ease as heir to the throne of Cat Country to apprentice with the hostile Broomhurst witches, his father, Carbonel, sends his human friends Rosemary and John to talk sense into the royal prince.
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees
Wondrous things happen when Anna Lavinia, a young girl who lives in a distant house behind a grove of pawpaw trees, sets off to travel to her aunt's house.
The little water sprite
A water-sprite born in the spring grows quickly, has many adventures, and even plays some pranks.
The elephant who liked to smash small cars
IT IS ABOUT AN ELEPHANT WHO LOVED TO SMASH SMALL CARS