Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast
San Diego : Magic Carpet Books, 2001.
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 175 pages ; 22 cm
Features the Nebula Award-winning novella "Lost Girls."In these modern myths and tales for the young and the young at hear, Jane Yolen transforms the impossible into the familiar and real. Among the outlandish wonders are an Alice grown tough in Wonderland, a dear-but dead-mother's homecoming, a bridge that longs for a goat-eating troll, and a mutiny among Peter Pan's troops.
Contents:
Tough Alice -- Mama gone -- Harlyn's fairy -- Phoenix farm -- Sea dragon of Fife -- Wilding -- The baby-sitter -- Bolundeers -- The bridge's complaint -- Brandon and the aliens -- Winter's king -- Lost girls.
Target Audience: Ages 10 and up.
ISBN:
0152164448 (pbk.)