Patricia Polacco

When her beloved Ginger, a piano-playing socialite and very snappy dresser, makes a last-minute trip to London not knowing her housesitter has cancelled, Petunia the pig does more than fend for herself, she becomes Ginger.

Aunt Chip saves the town of Triple Creek, where everyone has forgotten how to read because of the invasion of television.

During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duck Master of the Peabody Hotel.

Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.

Hensely's, a neighborhood general store, always seems to have what Molly, Kate, and their mother need.

On her birthday Dad takes a young girl and her brother to see the Monster at Clay Pit Bottom.