Peter Sís

Presents poems about gargoyles, vampires, the bogeyman, gremlins, and other monsters.

It is raining bullfrogs. Inside the coach to Cricklewood sit a blacksmith, a thief, and an orphan boy named Touch. "The haunt, lad!" shouts the blacksmith suddenly. "If you want to see a live ghost, stick your head out the window. He's on the roof." That is Touch's first glimpse of the roguish ghost of The Great Chaffalo, a magician once celebrated for his trick of turning straw into horses. They meet again when Touch, fleeing from his wicked great-uncle,...

A lonely old farmer realizes the value of human friendship when a young man comes to help him and his scarecrow with their farm.

A collection of Halloween stories and poems by a variety of authors. Includes recipes and a bibliography.

A plucky Mexican girl tries to recover her dream from the Dream Stealer who takes her to his castle where countless dreams and even more adventures await.

The best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran presents an impassioned tribute to the importance of fiction to democracy that blends memoir with close readings of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

Gus, a troll who loves to sing, makes everyone happy with his songs until his desire for gold becomes so strong that he no longer has time to use his beautiful voice.

A collection of poems that tells how such animals as alligators, bats, penguins, bumble bees, and skunks use their different senses.