Lively, Penelope

Peter's birthday gift to his grandfather turns out to be much more unusual, and much more trouble, than either of them could have guessed.

A girl's stuffed animals, Frog, Lion, and Cat, and her doll, Mary Ann, each take her on a different bedtime adventure.

Presents a retelling of the epic poem "The Aeneid," written by the Roman poet Virgil.

Goldilocks discovers the home of the three bears and, after entering, eats Little Bear's porridge and sleeps in his bed.

The revival of an ancient dance in an English village stirs up legendary unseen evil spirits which terrify a girl and her friend.

Peter's birthday gift to his grandfather turns out to be much more unusual, and much more trouble, than either of them could have guessed.

Alison, who tries to create a blissful family environment for her six children with help from Ingrid, the family's au pair, finds it difficult to contain long-repressed secrets that nobody in the household dares to mention.

Relates the adventures of a variety of creatures--mice, spiders, pill bugs--that live, seen and unseen, in the nooks and crannies of an ordinary house.

Contains stories in which novelist Penelope Lively imagines how things might have turned out had she made different choices at various junctures in her life.