Nancy Willard

"James and Danny are on a mission: to get the little silver race car out of the gumball machine at Mr. Wright's store. Only very, very, lucky people get both gumballs and the silver racer. It's a good thing one of James's quarters is a Canadian quarter, which just so happens to be very, very lucky. But is it lucky enough to get him that silver racer?" -- Jacket.

Although mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella meets her prince with the help of two magpies and her fairy godmother.

With the same mischievous wit and the same gift for revealing the magical essence of the ordinary that captivated readers of her first novel, Things Invisible to See, Nancy Willard now gives us the sad, funny, inspiring story of a family in transition. Jessie Woolman first saw the angel of death when she was a girl. That was before she married Henry and moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Henry had a scientific supply company and ran a small museum...

As she is preparing a special angelfood cake for her mother's birthday, a girl is surprised by three angels who have dropped in for a taste.

Sylvia, the new apprentice to the great magician Tottibo, steals one of his spells to complete an impossible task and accidentally creates chaos.

A mouse hiding under Grandmother's hat causes quite a commotion at her surprise birthday party.

A retelling, set in the early 1900's in New York City, of the traditional tale in which a kind and beautiful young woman, through her great capacity to love, releases a handsome young man from the spell which has made him into an ugly beast.

Having made a plan to spend the winter with Bear napping in a cozy cave, Rabbit finds himself too energetic to sleep and decides to join the world outside.

A light-hearted collection of poems about Shoofly Sally and her Everything Dog, who meet an unusual cast of characters at an odd restaurant called The Moon & Riddles Diner and the Sunnyside Cafě.