Three to see the king

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Colin Thompson

A family of wizards and witches living in an ordinary neighborhood in an ordinary town decides that they have had enough of the noisy family living next-door and makes them disappear.

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Cary Fagan

""If you always feel fully and completely happy, my friends, then you do not need my drops and I will not sell them to you for any amount of money." --Master Melville Eleven-year-old juggling enthusiast Sullivan Mintz helps his family run the Stardust Home for Old People. It's not ideal: his best friend, Manny, is eighty-one years old. But life as usual turns upside down when Master Melville's Medicine Show comes to town. Sullivan's excitement at finding performers his own age dissolves into dread when he steps onstage for a magic act only to wake up imprisoned in the traveling show's caravan. As his fears subside, his questions multiply. Is his family better off without him? Would life as a juggler performing with other kids be worse than living in an old folks' home? Being kidnapped could be the best thing that ever happened to him. or decidedly not"-- "A charming, humor- and heart-filled middle grade story of a misfit boy who finds an unexpected second life after being kidnapped by a colorful traveling medicine show"--

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Dr. Seuess [pseudonym

The book begins by introducing Fox and Knox (sometimes called "Mr. Fox" and "Mr. Knox") along with some props (a box and a pair of socks). After taking those four rhyming items through several permutations, more items are added (chicks, bricks, blocks, clocks), and so on. As the book progresses the Fox describes each situation with rhymes that progress in complexity, with Knox periodically complaining of the difficulty of the tongue-twisters. Finally, after the Fox gives an extended dissertation on Tweetle Beetles who fight (battle) with paddles while standing in a puddle inside a bottle (a Tweetle Beetle Bottle Puddle Paddle Battle Muddle), Knox acts on his frustration by stuffing Fox into the bottle, reciting a tongue-twister of his own: When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle, THIS is what they call... a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir! Knox then declares that the game is finished, thanking the Fox for the fun, and walks away while the beetles, a poodle, and the stunned Fox watch. - Wikipedia.

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John Morressy

A wizard's work is never done! For Kedrigern, though, wizardry has been a rewarding profession. The hours are unpredictable and far too much travel is required, but it provides the chance to exercise talents usefully and meet interesting people. The pay is good, and dependable no one stiffs a wizard. For Princess, wizardry is a new experience. Her life has not been easy: Long years hunkered down small and green on a lily pad in a swamp at an age when a lovely young lady prefers to be taking her place in polite society had been followed by a rapid succession of disenchantments and re-enchantments and re-disenchantments, despellings and respellings and re-despellings. Unknown to her, these awkward and uncomfortable years have revealed a latent talent for magic. And she also acquired a very handy pair of wings in the process! Join Kedrigern, Princess, their friends, colleagues, clients and adversaries, as well as an array of colorful characters (talking spiders, talking mirrors, talking dragons, and talking swords among them) in a second collection of novels and short stories, including *Kedrigern and the Dragon Comme il Faut*, never before available in English, and one never-before-published short story!