Pat McKissack

Fredrick McKissack

Peter Glassman

Hugh Lofting

Michael Hague

Presents the adventures of a kind-hearted doctor, who is fond of animals and understands their language, as he travels to Africa with some of his favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

The Hundredth Anniversary Celebration (Books of Wonder)

A child notices some amazing and magical things about the man who moves in next door--but no one else does.

The Wizard Next Door

Edith Nesbit

On a holiday at the seashore, Bernard, Mavis, Kathleen, and Francis save a mermaid from captivity and, after an incredible magic-filled journey beneath the waves, they must race against time to avert a war and save their underwater friends. Simultaneous.

Wet Magic

Listening to his father talk about his job, a young boy imagines all the fun he must have at work every day.

My Dad's Job

Although she sometimes resents her mother's work as a witch, a young girl decides to keep her mother just the way she is, in a perfect-for-Halloween tale about the ups and downs of having a working parent. Reprint.

Peter Glassman

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