collectors and collecting

Bink and Gollie's friendship remains strong, even in the face of Gollie's "royal blood," Bink's Stretch-O-Matic machine, and the pursuit of a world record.

Tara, a self-proclaimed shrinking violet, tries to break out of her shell by stealing the school mascot, a goat, but she gets caught and is shipped off for the summer to stay with relatives in the quirky town of Willow Falls, which she decides is as good a place as any to reinvent herself.

When Jumbeelia, an eight-year-old giant, climbs down a beanstalk and collects some "iggly plops," the little people of children's stories, she treats them like toys, unaware that she is endangering their lives.

Luna loves learning new words, and when she realizes that all of the beautiful, gorgeous, fun words are disappearing from the world, she decides it is up to her to save them.

Reluctantly, thirteen-year-old Duncan helps his neighbor, a widow recovering from a stroke, by hiding valuable antiques and art objects her husband had collected, but disaster strikes and the secrets he has been asked to keep may mean big trouble for Duncan.

A young boy describes his grandmother's adobe dollhouse giving information about the architecture, art, food, and culture of New Mexico.

An avid collector enumerates all the things that have been collected, from twenty-three keychains and fifty-one shells to a ball of tin foil five feet wide.

When Jumbeelia, an eight-year-old giant, climbs down a beanstalk and collects some "iggly plops," the little people of children's stories, she treats them like toys, unaware that she is endangering their lives.

The author takes readers on a tour of his personal museum of natural oddities and optical illusions as he explores the imaginative origins of art and science.

Prudy collects so many things that everyone says she has a problem, but when a crisis convinces her that they are right, she comes up with the perfect solution.