Aiken, Joan

With the help of some unusual friends, a young boy tries to restore the Golden Harp of Teirtu to its rightful owner.

These fourteen tales include three in which a princess turns into a bird with a cockney accent, a father mourns for a lost son, and a girl receives a gift from an aunt.

As the result of an accident a young girl is faced with the responsibility of foiling a Hanoverian plot to put St. Paul's Cathedral on rollers and roll it into the River Thames during the coronation of James IV.

Orphan Simon goes to London, uncovers a dastardly plot, and finally foils it at the annual Battersea Mince-Pie Tasting Ceremony. Grades 5-7.