When young Lionel is crowned king, he is told not to open the Book of Beasts. But he cannot resist and a spectacular red dragon leaps off the page and flies away. The dragon begins to terrify the kingdom and the young king has to find a way to stop him, even if it means opening the book and releasing another creature. Beloved author E. Nesbit weaves a magical adventure complemented by renowned illustrator Michael Hague’s vivid artwork.

Le roi Lionel et le livre magique

Most cats pursue the business of their lives in ways both fantastic and whimsical. In this entertaining volume of stories, cats perform as muses, inhabit fairy tales, consort with ghosts and zombies, and one cat even reigns as fantasy queen. Enter the fantastic world of whimsical cats and enjoy!Includes:"Searching for the Familiar" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch"Speechless in Seattle" by Lisa Silverthorne"Queen of the Mouse Riders" by Annie Reed"The Kingdom of Cats and Birds" by Geoffrey Landis"Cat Leading the Way" by Dean Wesley Smith"A Powerful Friend" by E. Nesbit"Clyde and the Ghost Cat" by Jamie Ferguson "Dead Fred" by Liz Pierce"Un-Familiar" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Year of the Cat: A Cat of Fantastic Whims - The Year of the Cat, #10

THAT going to the seaside was the very beginning of everything-only it seemed as though it were going to be a beginning without an end, like the roads on the Sussex downs which look like roads and then look like paths, and then turn into sheep tracks, and then are just grass and furze bushes and tottergrass and harebells and rabbits and chalk.

The children had been counting the days to The Day. Bernard indeed had made a calendar on a piece of cardboard that had once been the bottom of the box in which his new white sandshoes came home. He marked the divisions of the weeks quite neatly in red ink, and the days were numbered in blue ink, and every day he crossed off one of those numbers with a piece of green chalk he happened to have left out of a penny box. Mavis had washed and ironed all the dolls' clothes at least a fortnight before The Day. This was thoughtful and farsighted of her, of course, but it was a little trying to Kathleen, who was much younger and who would have preferred to go on playing with her dolls in their dirtier and more familiar state.

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