It is a place to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer Brown’s intricate, sugar-spun drawings.   It all began on a lavender blue day. The kind of day, Anna Lavinia knows, when anything can happen. It was on such a day that Anna Lavinia’s father saw a double rainbow, and went chasing after it. And it is on such a day that she and her cat Strawberry set off on their journey beyond the walled garden where the Pawpaw trees grow, to a place where the buttercups bloom pink and the laws of gravity don’t always apply. Here she will test her mother’s advice, “Never believe what you see,” against her father’s wise words, “Believe only what you see.” And just maybe she will get to finally use her father’s mysterious silver key.

    If he had a dime, he could buy his favorite treat, a chocolate bar and a lemon soda pop. Shan knows that Mr. Conley, the storekeeper, pays a penny each for good used paper sacks returned to the store. There are ten sacks at home, but Shan's mother tells him to take only nine to Mr. Conley, because the tenth sack has a hole in it. Shan wants a chocolate bar and a lemon soda pop so much, he disobeys his mother and takes the tenth sack. He carries the sack with the hole in it concealed among the nine good sacks, hoping Mr. Conley won't notice it. Mr. Conley overlooks it, but Shan, eating his chocolate bar and drinking his lemon soda pop, discovers something is wronginside him and all around him.

    For many years, she waits in a doll house hoping to be rescued and surprisingly it is a 7-year-old boy named Gideon who hears her calling and liberates her.

    Wherever one went, the other two followed. One day they met an artist named Peter, who was so happy to have met them. "We shall have good times together, you'll see," he told the three little horses.These dear and unforgettable characters, first introduced in 1958, are back in this sparkling new edition faithfully reproduced from the original story. Both boys and girls alike will enjoy sharing in their adventures.

    Miss Marvelous, a bit of a do gooder but nice, pampers and nurses her dogs who in their own way do inadvertent good turns for others. They help put out a fire, solve a mystery, and one of Spice's first puppies is promised to some neighborhood children. Shenanigans with a touch of make-believe; not the author's best work, but definitely homey.

    To me a dog lover is a dog who is in love with another dog."This book is about dog lovers in the Thurber sense. It is about a carefully nurtured, beautifully pedigreed little cocker spaniel named Lady, and a raffish, freedom-loving wanderer of a dog who wares no man's collar named Tramp.There are several other minor characters, such as human beings, but they are really important only to advance the plot.You will find out yourself that it is a wonderful story, but if you need any proof, Lady and the Tramp is going to be Walt Disney's major full-length feature picture next year.