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 &quote;Auntie Grumble Meets the Wizard&quote; by Carol Johnstone Sharp; &quote;Jonathan Bing Does Arithmetic,&quote; &quote;More About Jonathan Bing,&quote; and &quote;Jonathan Bing Dances for Spring&quote; by Beatrice Curtis Brown; &quote;The Pelican&quote; by Mildred Plew Meigs; &quote;The Wogg and the Baggle&quote; by Laura E. Richards; and &quote;The Man with the Bag&quote; by Padraic Colum. Other features include Eunice Tietjens' &quote;St. Valentine,&quote; &quote;Story Tell&quote; by Laura E. Richards, &quote;The Little Dragon&quote; by Constance Savery, Nancy Byrd Turner's &quote;Planting a Tree,&quote; &quote;Penguins&quote; by Anne Brewer, and &quote;The Piping on Christmas Eve&quote; by Florence Page Jaques.