But then a millionaire's daughter moves into the next-door mansion, an old miser hides a fortune in his decrepit house, and a runaway kid starts hiding out in Sleepyside!"

    Left alone inthe snow-covered land oof the coyote, caribou, and gizzly, Chiri learned to fend for himself, to hunt and survive by his keen instinct and natural intelligence. Now full-grown and full of courage and cunning, Chiri forms a tentative bond with trapper Link Stevens, the only human he's ever learned to trust. But the Husky knows that one day soon he will have to face the black wolf again--and this time only one of them will survive.

    By the time the last diary shuts, there have been great changes in the Mortmain household, not the least of which is that Cassandra is deeply, hopelessly, in love.

    She is forced to find her own way out of the forest and seek help from a strange young man....

    The count down 'till Christmas begins, and Toby must juggle his obligations to his family and his desire to become a great artist.

    He became known for his theatrical drawings for the Herald Tribune and the New York Times and for other newspapers and magazines. In addition he is an accomplished lithographer and had a one-man show in 1940 at the Associated American Artists Gallery. His prints are also in the collections of the Metropolitan and Whitney Museums, and he has ilustrated many of Saroyan’s books. His satire of army life, It Shouldn’t Happen, was published in 1945. At present he is busy drawing and painting in California, where he lives with his wife and baby son.”(This was written before Don had turned from sketches and lithographs of New York life to writing and illustrating children’s books. His first children’s book, written with his wife Lydia, was Chuggy and the Blue Caboose, published in 1951. Of course, Don continued to sketch and make illustrations of everybody and everything he saw.)