"Big Duck likes to boss around her younger brother, Little Duck, and she fancies herself the leader of their trio when joined by their gentle friend Porcupine. Little Duck does not speak yet, but through his expressions and his actions, he shows that he has a better grasp on any situation than his older sister"--

Three stories about Lowly Worm and his friends include "The Best Mistake Ever, " "A Visit to Mr. Fixit, " and "Best Friends."

"A shy teenager attempts to express how she really feels through the confections she makes at her family's pasteleria. A tourist from Montenegro desperately seeks a magic soup dumpling that could cure his fear of death. An aspiring chef realizes that butter and soul are the key ingredients to win a cooking competition that could win him the money to save his mother's life. Welcome to Hungry Hearts Row, where the answers to most of life's hard questions...

Missing You--Just Another New York Christmas Story--Area Code 212-- Momma's Done a Flit--To Forget Maryellen--The Absent Present--The Great Taboo--Looking for Mister Green--The Commissioner's Moll--Plumbing for Willy.

Fifteen original fables, including "Sour Crepes, " "Fox in Chicken Feathers, " and "The Dressy Wolf."

"My name is not actually Penny Dreadful. It is Penelope Jones. The Dreadful part is my dad's joke. But in fact I am completely undreadful. It is just that sometimes my brilliant ideas turn into disasters. E.g. I didn't mean for Dad to have to go to a crucial meeting with a plastic flowerpot stuck on his head, I was only trying to invent a Patented Brain Massaging Helmet. Plus how was I to know that you can't do rashes for show-and-tell, or go...

"From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth"--

Fifteen authors of Asian descent reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia, in short stories ranging from fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge.