Mahy, Margaret

While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers.

Mother didn't believe the little boy's tales about a dragon and lion in the meadow, but to the boy the creatures were very real.

When a baby refuses to eat his oatmeal, he causes unhappiness in a number of people and animals and begins a chain of events resulting in his correcting his ways.

A witch perches in a cherry tree and smells the cakes a young boy and his mother are baking.

After a shy and rather withdrawn eight-year-old begins receiving frightening supernatural images and messages, he learns about a family legacy which could be considered a curse or a rare gift.

A cumulative rhyme describes the increasing commotion that results as dogs and babies, cats and ladies, soldiers and mice all join the king's parade.

On the fifth anniversary of his older sister's death, nineteen-year-old Jonny Dart, troubled by feelings of guilt and an imperfect memory of the event, goes in search of the only other witness to the fatal accident and, through a chance meeting with a senile old woman, finds a way to free himself of the past.

During his first twenty-four hours after finishing high school, seventeen-year-old Ellis unexpectedly becomes part of an inner-city world far different from his comfortable life, which helps deal with his best friend's recent suicide.

A very modern grandmother, Mrs. Oberon, rides her tuned-up trail bike to come to her son Scrimshaw's rescue when he cannot stop his teething baby from crying.

A witch's pill is supposed to cure Robert of the hippopotamuses who daily follow him home from school--but there is one disadvantage to the treatment.