Emily Jenkins

Step into a wintry forest where seven iconic fairy tales unfold,retold with keen insight and touches of humor.

There once was a frozen forest so cold you could feel it through the soles of your boots. It was a strange place where some kisses broke enchantments, and others began them. Many said witches lived there — some with cold hearts, others with hot ovens and ugly appetites — and also dwarves in tiny houses made

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In 1912 New York, Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner, but Papa comes home and asks her help with an important task.

Six stories relate further adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys, as they encounter a fearsome (possible) shark, enjoy a dance party, and deal with rejection by The Girl, who is growing up.

Depicts families, from England to California and from 1710 to 2010, preparing and enjoying the dessert called blackberry fool. Includes a recipe and historical notes.

The lives of two dogs change after a new animal, a baby, comes to their house.

Five creatures live in our house. Three humans, and two cats. Three short, and two tall. Four grownups, and one child (that's me!). This story of lighthearted comparisons depicts various scenes in a happy household where each member is distinct but also has something in common with one or more of the others. The fun comes from sorting out the similarities and the differences.

"What will Harry Bergen-Murphy do when he braves first grade? Day 1: Find a friend. Day 15: Make an enemy. Day 40: Learn how to be a shark. Day 48: Distract a bully. Day 56: Avoid Goblin, the scary guinea pig. Day 99: Finish the world's most awesome one-hundredth-day-of-school project ever, before morning. Nothing can go wrong. Right? Harry is ready -- but he's a little nervous! In the first one hundred days of school, he will do all of the above...

With their magic being unpredictable, Nory, Elliott, Andres, and Bax are sent to the Upside-Down Magic room at Dunwiddle Magic School.

When Willa's Upside-Down Magic rains, it pours. Clouds form under ceilings. Classrooms get flooded. Umbrellas must always be nearby, just in case Willa has an outburst. Willa hates being the source of such sogginess. Even worse, the more she rains, the badder she feels ... and the badder she feels, the more she rains. All the storminess is threatening to drown her good grades and flood all her friendships. Is there any way to use magic to make the...

Dory and her friends from Ms. Starr's Upside-Down Magic class set off on an overnight school field trip to Dragon Haven to see, and learn how to care for, dragons -- unfortunately there are other students with regular magic there as well, so it is not long before the trouble starts.