“Then the busy hands fitted the legs to the torso, then they fitted the arms, each fitting the other, and the torso stood up with legs and arms but not head. It walked about the beach, holding its eyes up in its hands, searching for its lost head.”
“The hand with the eye fastened itself on the wrist of the arm. The arm stood up and walked in its hand. The other hand clung on behind as before, and this strange trio went searching.”
“inside there was a great room where King Winter sat, tall and stern, in his ice throne, with a walrus on each side. For the first time Ollie felt cold, for he was almost a little afraid of King Winter. ”
“At the edge of the woods he said good-by to Ollie, who came home so full of his adventure that he could hardly eat his dinner; he just wanted to talk and talk about all that he had done.”
“One day, the children were in the woodshed looking for a stick to use as a riding crop, when they found a broken umbrella. They decided it would make perfect wings for their dragon, and they fastener it to the old tree trunk.”
“The Duchess of Whimsy spins a tender tale of two royals who discover each other over a grilled cheese sandwich, and defy expectations by proving that people are often more than they seem.
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“He talks only to the most level-headed of people on the most drab of topics. But the one thing he can not be is extraordinarily whimsical. Or so everyone thought...”
“Chicken.′ ‘Yes, Papa?’ ‘You interrupted the story. Try not to get so involved.’ ‘I’m sorry, Papa. But she really was a witch.’ ‘Well, you’re supposed to be relaxing so you can fall asleep.”
“Oh, Papa. I couldn’t let that little chicken get all upset over an acorn! Please read one more story, and I promise I’ll fall asleep.′ ‘But Chicken,’ said Papa, ‘we are out of stories.”
“On Dinah’s first day at school she senses something is wrong. The kids work even during playtime, and are neat and behave well but what is the secret of the Headmaster’s control over them, and why are they afraid?”
“One morning the mailman brought her a peculiar O-shaped box. Madame Bodot screamed when she opened it. was a snake her son had sent her for her birthday.”
“One day, after a big snowstorm, the Little Red Engine rises to the occasion and proves he is worthy of being a main line engine--he is given a special name by order of the king.”
″...where the great main line to the North, and the great main line to the South met the little branch line on which the Little Red Engine was running.”
″... but the Little Red Engine had no name at all, only a number written in black, 394, for it only worked on a branch line, and the others were Main Line engines.”
“One morning, after a fierce storm, the people of the harbour come down to find a strange ship called the Neversink stuck fast on top of the sand dunes.”
“The last four gnomes in Great Britain live beside Folly Brook in Warwickshire; they are named after the flowers Baldmoney, Sneezewort, Dodder and Cloudberry.”