Margaret Mahy

Norvin, a boy who closely resembles a shark, uses his talents to scare away all the swimmers at Caramel Cove - except for one female shark in love. Help!

Mabel blows a bubble that captures Baby and wafts him away, resulting in a wild chase that involves the whole neighborhood.

Greedy to have the cove where he swims all to himself, Norvin, who looks a bit like a shark, pretends to be one, scaring off the other swimmers and leaving him in happy aquatic solitude--until he is discovered by an amorous female shark.

Nothing seems to go as planned on their Saturday morning, but the children enjoy themselves.

A young queen and her runaway goat make quite a showing at the pet fair, where they win an unexpected prize.

The McTavishes, their seven children, and Granny McTavish take their old rattlebang of a car on a picnic up Mt. Fogg and have an exciting adventure.

A collection of nine stories in which characters encounter talking plants, a pine-tree man, a merry-go-round with flying horses, mystical midnight birds, and a cake-eating tree.

A resourceful father engages in all kinds of acrobatic moves to keep an assortment of jungle creatures from getting the double-dip-chocolate-chip-and-cherry ice cream cone he is taking home to his son.

A duck on a bike? From Sheep to Horse to Chicken to Goat ... everyone in the barnyard has something to say about Duck's zany idea. But what are they really thinking? And what will happen next? Is something bugging you? Here is the funny side of waging war against - oh no! - head lice. This book is guaranteed to make you laugh - and itch! From the opening scene of happy, oversized lice, you know these bugs are determined to stay, and Mom is about...

After living like a gypsy in Australia all of his life, Pete tries to adjust to living in a permanent place -- his father's New Zealand hometown where Pete must pass a test to belong to his cousins' exclusive gang.