Seven Chinese brothers elude execution by virtue of their extraordinary individual qualities. With humor and wit, internationally acclaimed author Margaret Mahy captures the courageous adventures of seven brothers who use their supernatural gifts to overpower a cruel emperor. This ALA Notable Book features beautifully executed illustrations full of historical.

Mabel blows a bubble that captures Baby and wafts him away, resulting in a wild chase that involves the whole neighborhood.

Perigrine the pirate lived with his aunt and his parrot. When he went out to his pirate parties, he never took them with him! His aunt decided to have her own party.

Though their Saturday morning walk is not as peaceful as planned, a group of children and their dogs, with one brave adult, enjoy themselves.

Greedy to have the cove where he swims all to himself, Norvin, who looks a bit like a shark, pretends to be one, scaring off the other swimmers and leaving him in happy aquatic solitude--until he is discovered by an amorous female shark.

Seventeen kings and forty-two elephants romp with a variety of jungle animals during their journey through a wild, wet night.

As the only Bancroft in a family of Fortunes, Lolly has always felt left out of her Fortune cousins' exclusive gang but when her parents separate Lolly discovers a new inner strength and aspects of kinship that go beyond names.

Children's author Margaret Mahy describes her home in New Zealand, her life as a writer, and the way she writes.

A mischievous wind creates havoc among the magnificent hats at a garden party for fashionable pigs.

When the Goat family moves to get away from their grumbly neighbor Mr. Ratchett, they miss having someone to tease and he misses having something to complain about.