Louisiana’s way home by Kate Dicamillo

A modern fairy tale from Kate DiCamilo What could bring together a tiny mouse with exceptionally large ears, a rat who longs for a world full of light. and a lonely serving girl with a simple, impossible wish? Reader, it is your destiny to find out.

Life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones - Roald Dahl   When he grew up. ROALD DAHL left England for Africa- and a series of dangerous adventures began.   From the tales of plane crashes to surviving snake bites, read all about Roald Dahl's extraordinary life before he became the world's number-one story-teller.    

Boy is this story of Roald Dahl's very own boyhood, including tales of sweet shops and chocolate, mean old ladies, and a great mouse plot - the inspiration for some of his most marvelous story books in the years to come.  These tales are full of exciting and strange things - some funny, some frightening, all true.

  A LYRICAL ODYSSEY FROM KATE DICAMILLO Once there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit couldn't move or speak, but he could watch and listen. and he was very pleased with himself and his owner and his house. And then, one day, he was lost.