Babbitt, Natalie

A millionaire offers twelve-year-old Joe Casimir "a perfect life," filled with wealth. But accepting means Joe would have to give up his own dreams for his future.

Every now and then, the Devil likes to pop up into the world for an adventure. He?s a trickster and a mischief-maker, and just as full of vanity and other human failings. But he?s also a gifted storyteller. The Devil?s antics are presented in these two collections of stories, The Devil?s Storybook and The Devil?s Other Storybook, together in one volume. They make for delightfully wicked reading and are accompanied by charming illustrations by Natalie Babbitt.

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

Presents Natalie Babbitt's novel in which a family that has stumbled upon the fountain of youth and found that its powers are not necessarily a blessing is alarmed when a young girl and a fortune-seeking man learn their secret; and includes ten myths, legends, short stories, and poems that share the work's themes.

Because he is too nice to be a pirate, Jack Plank looks for a new career, but each night he tells tales of why the one job he looked into that day is wrong.

Ten stories recount the Devil's exploits, successes and failures, in Hell and in the world above.

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.

Pandemonium ensues when Elise's fairy godmother makes a mistake and changes the one little girl into eight.