Rooted in the German culture, these stories will delight any child who enjoys folklore fairy tales. Contents: What's the use of it?; The Engineer and the Dwarfs; Kathchen and the Kobold; The Old King; The Dragon's Tail; The Easter Hare; The Nixy Lake; King Reinhold; The Witch's Granddaughter, Holiday Adventures.

What if you could grow a bicycle? Timka and Dasha could, and did in their backyard garden. Soon, they discovered that the bicycle did not behave; it grew and grew, all the way to the sky. So, what did this brother and sister do? They kept planting. 40 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations/ picture book, large print text. Ages 18mos. to 5 yrs.

In simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions, the final book in a four-book chapter book series, a companion to The Unicorn's Secret. The faeries have returned to their beloved meadow near the village of Ash Grove. Winter is coming and they are working hard to prepare for the storms--and to stay hidden. Alida saved the villagers' crops from Lord Dunraven's greed, but now the people of Ash Grove know that the faeries have returned. Will they tell Lord Dunraven's guards? The faeries live in fear of being discovered and Alida wants desperately to find a way to make her family safer. Then a frightening accident in the woods outside Ash Grove brings even more danger, and an opportunity for Alida to forge a friendship that could change the faeries' lives forever. The risk is terrible--Alida can only follow her heart.