Stories You Grew Up Around

Four sisters try to be good while dealing with temper, poverty, and an overly imaginative neighbor.

A sour orphan finds a locked garden; she decides she and her invalid cousin are not staying sick.

A rabbit ignores his mother's advice to avoid a pie-making gardener. This does not end well.

A horse recounts his life of service, stable politics, and why humans should definitely avoid tight reins.

Two identical boys swap clothes, forcing a Prince into the slums and a pauper onto the English throne.

A Flea competes for a princess’s hand, a tree regrets growing up, and two rogues weave a suit of nothing.

Alice steps through a mirror and finds that in this world, checkmate is a career move.

A prince brings a rose, a princess brings a pea, and everyone is vaguely dissatisfied.

A girl loses her house in a storm and demands a way back from a local bureaucrat.

A puppet wants to be a real boy, but keeps getting distracted by swindling foxes.

A girl breaks into a family home for lunch. The homeowners are not amused.

Statues cry, birds sacrifice themselves, and giants learn the hard way that walls have consequences.

Three castaways chase treasure maps and civilize islands while dodging witch doctors and mysterious skeletons.

A crew of specialists hunts an elusive creature with thimbles, forks, railway shares, and a very specific fear of Boojums.

An orphan girl moves to a mountain hut; her grandfather decides he likes goats better than people.

The Sans Soucians rule the social scene, but the sophomores have their own plans.

A girl is rich, then poor, then a servant, yet she insists on playing royalty anyway.

A girl loses her shoes, gains a pair, and teaches an entire village how to read.

How the animals got their shapes, and why the cat still ignores your existence.

A scholar spends his life writing a Hebrew dictionary, but history remembers his side-hustle about a sleigh.

The Merry Hearts face their final term, and the reality of leaving campus is surprisingly inconvenient.

From prehistoric melting pots to kings debating trouser lengths, humanity stumbles through centuries of discovery, plague, and very long boat rides.

Two teenage pilots must infiltrate an occupied airfield and outsmart the Luftwaffe's finest.

Twenty classic plays lose their iambic pentameter but keep the magic, the murders, and the questionable parenting choices.

A rising pitcher hits the major leagues, but a jealous ex-player wants him off the mound.

A chimney sweep drowns, sprouts gills, and navigates a submerged world where transformation is the only constant.

One man leaves his city for a better one, ignoring the arrows fired at his back.

An alphabet starts with a pie, a hen lays eggs for gentlemen, and a knave regrets his pastry theft.

A farmer's wife brandishes a carving knife while pigs go to market and men debate the merits of getting out of bed.

The goblins want the princess as a bride, but they forgot about the mountain's plumbing.

A boy who throws barrel-staves at laundry shops learns the Scout Oath and creates total social confusion.

Three friends, a bug-collecting professor, and a temperamental automobile navigate Mexican brigands to find a subterranean Aztec ruin.

Two sets of twins invade the countryside, bringing the city with them one disaster at a time.

An orphan moves to Vermont, plays a game of forced positivity, and ruins everyone's bad mood.

Two youths cross the African continent using camels, steamers, and donkeys while citing every famous explorer's notes along the way.

A girl chases a rabbit, ignores the laws of arithmetic, and develops a very inconvenient neck.

Mrs. Bhaer runs a school for boys, and the boys insist on running the house.

A simple earthquake turns a buggy ride into a long, subterranean haul through weird civilizations.

A shipwrecked trio manages a tropical paradise with Victorian efficiency until pirates and cannibals interrupt their botanical studies.

A diminutive scout attempts to save a failing refreshment parlor and succeeds in getting his head stuck.

King Rinkitink loves jokes, his goat loves sarcasm, and their island just lost its entire population.

A desert girl discovers Kentucky luxury while Lloyd Sherman tests her principles during the most anticipated wedding of the season.

A golden-boy athlete defends his friend against a frame-up in the Arizona territory.

Siblings wage a relentless campaign of imagination against the suffocating boredom of Victorian adulthood.

The local newspaper is dead. Four boys decide to start it up and make the town nervous.

Three brothers balance farm chores, mystery-solving, and the final weeks of military school.

A shuttered window, a sliding stair landing, and an unopened letter lead a club of girls to a family reunion.

A bear of very little brain discovers that a sticky situation is almost always improved by honey.

An inheritance of three million dollars turns a quiet town into a frantic hunt for a fortune.

A group of children tries to hide a full-sized dragon under a bed. Logistics ensue.

A prince kneels, a hermit chats with ospreys, and the frost paints pictures on a bedroom window.

A group of city girls heads to the mountains, only to find canoes, wilderness, and a missing chemical formula.

Two brothers fly a plane to Molokai, fight off a kidnapper, and find a fortune in a box.

A collection where dolls come to life, storks gossip about aristocrats, and a match-girl sees heaven in a sulfur flame.

A boy is wrongly sent to reform school and must clear his name before he turns thirty.

To be truly loved is to have your fur rubbed off.