Zauberlinda the Wise Witch author-Soman Chainani The Tale of Despereaux Being

The Tale of Despereaux Being the Story of a Mouse

science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam - anything floating that has been washed ashore

Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud

yet with a universality that embraces all children and their parents

This follow-up to Fantastic Failures offers up a second dose of fascinating stories featuring flops that turned into triumphs

Zauberlinda the Wise Witch author-Soman Chainani The Tale of Despereaux BeingGIBSON, Eva Katharine. Zauberlinda The Wise Witch. Chicago: Robert Smith Printing Co [1901]. 8vo, 258pp. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in yellow and orange. Pictorial endpapers with fixed sheets printed with an orange background; illustrations in one color on every page with text in black. Light rubbing to spine ends and lower corners, covers slightly so, spine lightly sunned, a few pages slightly soiled in margins, else an unusually clean, tight