Tricia Tusa

Saturdays are dress-up days when Eleanor Sue climbs out the window ... tiptoes over to the front door ... and rings the doorbell. When her mother answers, she doesn't see Eleanor Sue. She sees a cranky old neighbor. Or a hungry witch. Or a white-bearded wizard. Eleanor Sue is a master of disguise, but when her mother gets in on the act, along with Grandma, anything can happen.--

A girl travels through an imaginative world of colors by way of a swing.

Alice wants everything in her bedroom to be blue before she falls asleep.

After a hectic day, it is time to bring on the night so that a child and her family can finally rest. Annotation. Have you had a bad day? Have things been zooming out of control from the moment you set your feet on the floor this morning? Are you ready for the day to be over? No problem! Just follow these instructions on how to make a night: Find a rope. Make a loop. Let it loose in space. Catch the sun. Pull it down. Find a safe, dark place. Peel...

Avon the snail and Edward, a take-charge ant, set off together on a journey to an undetermined destination in search of unspecified adventures.

A treasury of poems invites youngsters to read entries that are positioned in untraditional directions and celebrates the ways in which the world can sway, crash, rise, and fall and still remain magical.

Best friends Lily and Salma disagree over their preferred foods, but after trading sandwiches to see how they taste, the girls change their minds.

As a child, Elva asks for a violin so that she can make beautiful music but many years pass before her dream can come true.