When eleven-year-old Jenny goes to stay with her widowed grandmother who lives by the seaside, she learns a great deal about the nature of love and the ways of the sea.
A sea captain's widow waits for her husband to send her a message from the bottom of the sea. Waiting with her are her granddaughter and a man named Seward.
Relates the history of a self-made man, his dreams, achievements, peculiarities, and his relationships with his twin daughters and others in the small circle of friends and relatives around him.
The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country.
A young boy named Egan sets out to prove that the strange sounds coming from the top of the Mammoth Mountains near his aunt and uncle's home--which the villagers believe are the cries of a mysterious monster--have a reasonable explanation.
Nobody knows what is best for the Prince except the Prince himself and the court jester, but they aren't asked about it and it takes the cook's daughter to clear things up.
A sea captain's widow waits for her husband to send her a message from the bottom of the sea. Waiting with her are her granddaughter and a man named Seward.
Phoebe prefers sitting in the bathtub to dressing in frills and sashes, but wearing her father's clothes does not please her as much as a plain navy sailor dress.
