Tricia Tusa

On Saturdays, Eleanor Sue dresses up as anything from a neighbor to a bear, climbs out her window, and rings her front doorbell, but this time, her mother is getting in on the fun.

Avon the snail and Edward, a take-charge ant, set off together on a journey to an undetermined destination in search of unspecified adventures.

Miranda loves to play Bach, Haydn, and Mozart on the piano, until the day she hears a one-man band playing boogie-woogie.

An ardent suitor tries various means of communication, from smoke signals to Morse code to skywriting, in order to get his message to his Valentine.

A wizard's hat blows into town, changing people into different animals when it lands on their heads.

Avon the snail decides to become a writer with the help of his friend Edward the ant, which leads them into a series of adventures involving close encounters with an anteater, a crow, a tree frog, and a hungry fish.

Alice wants everything in her bedroom to be blue before she falls asleep.

As a child, Elva asks for a violin so that she can make beautiful music but many years pass before her dream can come true.

On Seal Island off the coast of Maine, a place aswarm with pets of all kinds, nine-year-old Pru plans to keep her teacher from leaving by finding her a dog.

Mrs. Jolly Bones goes through the week, doing chores in her unique way.