Just for Fun

The master illustrator of Mr. Popper's Penguins and The Story of Ferdinand brings new life to a bevy of traditional tales. More than forty of the artist's enchanting pen-and-ink drawings grace thirteen fairy tales and poems of wizards, dragons, and princes in disguise by Padraic Colum, Beatrice Curtis Brown, Eunice Tietjens, and other distinguished authors. Contents include "e;Auntie Grumble Meets the Wizard"e; by Carol Johnstone Sharp; "e;Jonathan Bing Does Arithmetic,"e; "e;More About Jonathan Bing,"e; and "e;Jonathan Bing Dances for Spring"e; by Beatrice Curtis Brown; "e;The Pelican"e; by Mildred Plew Meigs; "e;The Wogg and the Baggle"e; by Laura E. Richards; and "e;The Man with the Bag"e; by Padraic Colum. Other features include Eunice Tietjens' "e;St. Valentine,"e; "e;Story Tell"e; by Laura E. Richards, "e;The Little Dragon"e; by Constance Savery, Nancy Byrd Turner's "e;Planting a Tree,"e; "e;Penguins"e; by Anne Brewer, and "e;The Piping on Christmas Eve"e; by Florence Page Jaques.