Drawings show an alphabet of young victims and how they died.

These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T. S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems.

A brother and sister take "an intrepid voyage of epic proportion" on a bicycle.

Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass are visiting a New Hampshire inn, and inside that inn is a clock. It s called the Childermass Clock. Inside the clock there is a tiny dollhouse room, an exact replica of the professor s childhood home. And on one of the shelves in that tiny room is a tiny skull. Inside that skull is something evil. In this third Johnny Dixon mystery, Johnny takes the skull to try to solve the murder of the professor s granduncle,...

A boy discovers he is shrinking but does not know the cause or cure.

While spending the summer in an old house on a desolate Canadian island, Anthony Monday and Miss Eells discover a chest that can transport them to another world and a maniacal group who are plotting the destruction of people on Earth.