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Three household adventures in the life of Mitzi include an intended trip to grandmother's, sharing a family cold, and reversing the President's motorcade.
Morris buys a set of paints as a birthday present for Benjamin, but he wants to keep them for himself.
Young Mole and his grandmother live together and get along well enough most of the time, but in each of these four stories there is an exception to the rule.
"A brilliant dark comedy about life, death and growing old in America told with Segal's characteristic humor, crystalline style and deadpan delivery--and her hilarious sense of the absurd. Half the Kingdom is a brilliant dark comedy about life, death and growing old in post-9/11 ...
"Five close friends in their 90s meet, as they have for decades, for their monthly 'ladies lunch', to puzzle, and laugh at, the enigmas and affronts of ageing. When one of their number is placed unhappily in a home the others conspire to spring her. Returning to her group of erud...
When the bear insults the kingbirds' chicks, a humorous battle ensues between the land animals and the flying creatures of the world.
A little girl's refusal to stop crying attracts a strange procession as her mother leads her out of the park.
Twenty-seven fairy tales including many well-known stories and such lesser-known tales as "The Juniper Tree," "Many-Fur," and "Brother Gaily."
New York Times Notable Book 2013 " No one writes like Segal - her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure. From first to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel. " - Margot Livesey " I always...
Twenty-seven newly translated fairy tales from Grimm including many old favorites as well as such lesser-known tales as "The Juniper Tree," "Many-Fur," and "Brother Gaily."