Peggy the pig finds the perfect party outfit on a scarecrow, but the scarecrow is not pleased to lose its clothes.

A young boy uses a witch hazel branch to make a scarecrow and has a mysterious encounter on the night of the harvest moon.

In this collection of short stories, Swanwick takes us on a whirlwind journey across the globe and across time and space, where magic and science exist in possibilities that are not of this world.

Tired of the same old fantasy? Here are nineteen much-needed antidotes to clichéd tales of swords and sorcery. Fantasy is back, and it's better than ever!

"What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife...

When Arthur and Rose were little, they were heroes in the Land of Roar, an imaginary world that they found by climbing through the folding bed in their grandad's attic. Roar was filled with things they loved--dragons, mermaids, ninja wizards and adventure--as well as things that scared them, including a very creepy scarecrow. Now the twins are eleven, Roar is just a memory. But when they help Grandad clean out the attic, Arthur is horrified as Grandad...