A collectible, lavishly illustrated new series of classic stories, fairy tales and fables that have captured the imaginations and hearts of children for generations.
Who is the real Margo? Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life - dresses like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, ha…
Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilisation underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the eighth family, the demons. The demons planned to lift their small island out o…
When a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their company, and an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one - neighbors, parents, teachers, is spared f…
Growing up at Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, Rossamund Bookchild - a boy with an unfortunate name - has led a life sheltered from the dangers of the world. But this all changes the day the man with the strange red-and-pale-blue eyes recruits him into the service of the Emperor. Rossamund has been drafted into the ranks of the Half Continent's "Lamplighters…
Cam and her classmates are attending the dedication of a new library for their school. Since the governor, who is running for president, is also attending, police officers and Secret service agents are there as well. BANG! Nearly everyone in the room drops to the ground when a loud noise--that sounds like a gunshot---goes off. The Secret service agents think it's a student prank. CLICK! Cam dis…