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Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories

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Mary Poppins

P.L. Travers · 206 pages

An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.

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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

Roald Dahl · 225 pages

Contains: The boy who talked with animals The hitchhiker The Mildenhall treasure The swan The wonderful story of Henry Sugar Lucky break [A piece of cake](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504283W)

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Tales from Moominvalley

Tove Jansson · 176 pages

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The Fairy's Return and Other Princess Tales

Gail Carson Levine · 390 pages

Contains six tales about princesses, including the title work in which the son of a baker and a princess fall in love, but her father disapproves.

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Wayside School Is Falling Down

Louis Sachar · 179 pages

"Watch Closely," said Mrs. Jewls. "You can learn much faster using a computer instead of paper and pencil." Then she pushed the new computer out the window. The children watched it fall thirty floors and smash against the sidewalk. "See?" said Mrs. Jewls. "That's gravity! I've been trying to teach you about gravity, but the computer showed you a lot quicker!" That's the way things happen a

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A Necklace of Raindrops and Other Stories

Joan Aiken · 100 pages

Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime reading. There's a flying apple pie, a cat that's bigger than an elephant, a house that lays an egg, storybook animals that leap out of their books at night, and a wealth of other wonderful characters and ideas, all with the colorful, dreamlike quality of the very best fairy tales. Joan Aiken's delicious prose i

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Play in One Scene

Lewis Carroll · 112 pages

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well

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Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi · 205 pages

"First published in serial form from 1881 to 1883 in Il Giornale dei bambini, the many adventures of Pinocchio, Geppetto's wooden puppet who came to life to laugh, cry, and dance like a real boy, garnered immediate acclaim as a children's story. Today Italians consider the novel, along with The Divine Comedy and The Decameron, one of their most important works of literature. Readers familiar only

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The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree

Bill Brittain · 181 pages

A children's novel in a folk tale style. A mysterious stranger offers to grant the wishes of the inhabitants of the New England village of Coven Tree. The loose wording of the wishes of some villagers causes their wishes to go awry.

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The Book of Dragons

E. Nesbit · 112 pages

Eight madcap tales of unpredictable dragons — including one made of ice, another that takes refuge in the General Post Office, and a fire-breathing monster that flies out of an enchanted book and eats an entire soccer team! Marvelous adventure and excitement for make-believers of all ages.

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Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries

William Kotzwinkle · 171 pages

A quick-witted insect sleuth, patterned after Sherlock Holmes, displays his brilliant powers of deduction in solving five mysteries.

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Amelia Jane Again

Enid Blyton · 159 pages

Amelia Jane is the terror of the toy cupboard and she can never behave for very long!

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The Tales of Beedle the Bard

J.K. Rowling · 128 pages

A collection fairy tales for young wizards and witches, with each story followed by observations on Wizarding history, personal reminiscences, and information on the story's key elements by Hogwarts headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. Wizard and the Hopping Pot -- Fountain of Fair Fortune -- Warlock's Hairy Heart -- Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump -- Tale of the Three Brothers.

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Roverandom

J.R.R. Tolkien · 128 pages

Roverandom is a novella written by J.R.R. Tolkien, originally told in 1925. It deals with the adventures of a young dog, Rover. In the story, an irritable wizard turns Rover into a toy, and Rover goes to the moon and under the sea in order to find the wizard again to turn him back into a normal-sized dog. The author wrote Roverandom for his son Michael Tolkien to amuse him upon the loss of his fav

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Dragon Kiss

E.D. Baker · 304 pages

Audun, a dragon from the Icy North, encounters obstacles as he pursues the love of his life--a human girl who can transform into a dragon using magic.

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Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Betty MacDonald · 128 pages

A woman with a magic way of curing children's bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby.

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Twice Upon a Marigold

Jean Ferris · 304 pages

After a quiet happy year in a small town, Queen Olympia regains her memory and initiates new plots and manipulations, as the residents of Zandelphia and Beaurivage, now ruled by Christian and Marigold, feel the effects of her bad energy.

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Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie · 219 pages

Haroun's father is the greatest of all storyletters. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father. So he flies off on the back of the Hoopie bird to the Sea of Stories - and a fantastic adventure begins.

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The Sword in the Stone

T.H. White · 288 pages

When Merlyn the magician comes to tutor Sir Ector's sons Kay and the Wart, schoolwork suddenly becomes much more fun. After all, who wouldn't enjoy being turned into a fish, or a badger, or a snake? But Merlyn has very particular plans for the Wart. This is the children's story of King Arthur's childhood which was the basis for the still popular Disney cartoon of the same title.

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The Witch Family

Eleanor Estes · 223 pages

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The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner

Terry Pratchett · 336 pages

The second fabulously funny short story collection from the late acclaimed storyteller Terry Pratchett. New Pratchett fans will find wonder, mayhem, sorcery, and delight, and loyal listeners will recognize the seeds of ideas that went on to influence his most beloved tales later in life.

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The Light Princess

George MacDonald · 50 pages

Because she is not invited to the christening of the princess, the King's sister casts a spell depriving the child of gravity and the ability to weep tears.

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