Brisby enlists the aid of a race of intelligent rats to save her home and her sick child.

    Aimed primarily at children this book uses the allegory of metamorphosis to assist in understanding death.

    For her there will be many bitter years of exile, sustained only by a belief that one day her offspring will return to her abandoned homeland.James MacAskill Stonor - a lonely, bewildered child growing up in a storm-racked English coastal town... but destined to be one of the greatest and best-loved artists of this century.'The Stonor Eagles' - his beautiful and haunting sculptures, whose creation and final unveiling are recounted in this deeply moving saga of life, suffering, and the courage to love... of dreams that die, and dreams that can come true.

    Troubled and separated from his herd, the whale wants to fulfill his one obsessive desire — to communicate with the human race and learn why they can be both vicious hunters and frolicking playmates.Far away, on a doomed Russian nuclear submarine, Lieutenant Peter Rostov, the sonar officer and a classical musician, is spending what he's sure are his last days listening to the beautiful "sounding" of the whale.In the amazing climax to this unique novel, man and whale come together — and a magnificent destiny is fulfilled."Searls is remarkably eloquent. . . . you'll stand up and cheer." — The Washington Post Book World

    BEWARE, BEWARETHE CLAW OF THE BEARHIS ARMIES COME UPON THE AIRA silver cat and a fierce-eyed owl reign comfortably as the heroes of Meadow-Wood from the oak tree home -- until an invasion from the land across the river puts their lives in danger, and makes their past heroic deeds seem very, very small.Nothing seems to stop the army of the bear!But no one counts on the help of a small, not-so-heroic spider -- or of a legendary eagle no one thought was real...