Seven-year-old Keiko, a careless and spoiled Japanese girl, spends three months in the country with Great Grandfather and her cousin Y?ji and gradually becomes more gentle and sensible.
Terrible changes occur in the house where Tibby's mother works, but although Tibby knows something that may make all the difference, she doesn't feel she can divulge the secret.
When she wins a scholarship to a famous ballet school, Lottie, an orphan reared by the costume mistress for a London ballet company, is torn between her lifelong dream and her love for a puppy.
Tells the stories of a doll who would rather live in pockets than dollhouses, a fairy doll who works magic, a doll who wants to find a Christmas home, and a doll who travels with fairs.
For centuries the Dragon of Og has taken for food two bullocks a month from the lord's herd, but a new lord declares the custom must end, and so begins a battle of wits.