Vivian French

A mother and child watch as tadpoles develop and grow into frogs.

The sorceress Lady Lamorna has her heart set on a very expensive new robe, and she will stop at nothing--including kidnapping and black magic--to get the money to pay for it.

While touring a special Tyrannosaurus rex exhibit with his grandfather, a young boy encounters some fascinating facts and even more intriguing questions about the predator in this lively ode to curiosity.

A retelling of a fairy tale follows a young man who becomes a princess' unlikely suitor when the king and queen issue a decree that whoever presents them with the most wonderful thing in the world will win their daughter's hand in marriage.

Although he loves to help Grandpa pick fresh fruit, Oliver will not eat any until one day Mom prepares something very special in a big glass bowl.

Stanley has trouble deciding what to give his mother for Mother's Day.

"... the beady-eyed, green-tongued witch Truda Hangnail spreads evil along her path to succeed Queen Bluebell, enlisting the kingdom's rats and shrinking the good witches of Wadingburn to pave her way to the throne. Luckily, a sweet-natured orphan named Loobly is witness to Truda's evil spells and sets off to fetch help."--Jacket flap. When the quill writes "Go Go Go" frantically on the wall, and the House of the Ancient Crones heaves Gracie Gillypot...

Princess Chloe is looking forward to wearing her primrose petticoats to the Ruby Mansions ball, but things go bad when Princess Gruella wants to borrow her favorite dress and Chloe forgets her invitation.

Gracie Gillypott and Prince Marcus embark on a dwarf-watching outing, not knowing that the dwarves are working frantically making crowns for a royal wedding and that they have enlisted some unreliable trolls to help them, thus putting the humans' expedition in peril.