Mary Norton's The Borrowers Afield (1955) Illus. Beth and Joe Krush Harcourt Brace & Company, 1990 The Clock family is on the run -- quite literally -- when readers return to the action of Mary Norton's stories about the borrowers. And there is no going back. Which is going to
Mary Norton's The Borrowers (1953) Illus. Beth and Joe Krush Harcourt Young Classics, 1998 Beyond the dark passages beneath the floor. Past the strong gates, barred with safety pins, that only Pod knows how to open. There: upstairs. There: the potential to be seen...by people. Arrietty has never known of
Beverly Cleary's Ramona’s World (1999) Illus. Alan Tiegreen It's the jaded reader in me; when I discovered that there had been another Ramona book published, fifteen years after the last, I was suspicious. I thought of L.M. Montgomery, pushed -- by readers and publishers -- to write more Anne stories,
Beverly Cleary's Ramona Forever (1984) Illus. Alan Tiegreen This Ramona book came along when I was too old (in my young reader's opinion) to be seen reading Ramona books. And, so, I read it in the public library, at a table, with my textbooks and notebooks spread out around me,
This volume in the Ramona series opens on a lighter note; Mr. Quimby has found work and without the pressing worries of Ramona and Her Father, there's more time and energy for fun on Klickitat Street. It even shows in Ramona's signature. She has forsaken her "kitty-kat Q" for Quimby
