Barnett, Mac

A short biography about children's author, Margaret Wise Brown, focusing on the "important" facts.

Max and Sam decide to dig a hole and try to find something spectacular.

"This book is about Circle. This book is also about Circle's friends, Triangle and Square. Also it is about a rule that Circle makes, and how she has to rescue Triangle when he breaks that rule"--Back cover.

As the Terrible Two face the end of their time together in Yawnee Valley, they are determined to pull a prank that changes the town forever.

In 1989 someone is threatening to steal the crown jewels, so the Queen of England summons Mac B. to England to protect them--and when they are stolen from a locked dungeon cell, where Mac and Holcroft, one of the warders, are supposed to be guarding them, it is up to Mac to figure out how they were stolen, and whether the thief is the descendant of an Irish soldier-of-fortune who tried to steal them in 1671, or someone else entirely.

When taking his morning bath, President Taft accidentally gets stuck in the bathtub, and needs the First Lady and members of the cabinet to help him get out.

"Sam and Leo are sure they will discover something exciting if they just keep digging their hole"--OCLC.

Jack, a monkey, takes a purse--and some lipsticks--from a Lady and uses them and a dog, Rex, to get into mischief.

"This book is about Square. This book is also about Square's friend Circle. Also it is about Square trying to make something perfect like Circle is. But it is hard to make something perfect"--Back cover.

One day, Mac (smartest boy in his class in a small town in California) receives a telephone call from the Queen of England, recruiting him to find the crown jewels (well, actually just the Coronation Spoon) and so Mac embarks on his first adventure as a secret agent--with the assurance that the Queen will give him a note excusing him from school.