A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.

Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire,...

"Simple text and full-color photographs introduce readers to Maurice Sendak. Developed by literacy experts for students in second through fifth grade"--

The best-selling author of the Wicked Years series presents a visual tribute to the art of Maurice Sendak, in a book that examines Sendak's aesthetic influences from William Blake to Walt Disney; looks at recurring motifs in his work, as well as his profound understanding of the imaginations and emotions of children; and more.

Presents the life of the artist and author known primarily for his award-winning illustrated children's books.

After Little Bear meets a bear cub living alone by a stream, he and his friends help the cub find his missing parents.

Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah Bakewell.
Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime...

Maurice travels to New Zealand, where he's given a great responsibility and learns the value of always telling the truth.