Believing Is Seeing: Seven Stories
A variety of stories from Jonessome of which have appeared in other volumes in the US and/or the UKhave been newly gathered into this offering, certain to lure fans of the supernatural.  The one entirely new story portrays Anne Smith, a girl in bed with mumps. To pass the time she dreams up ``Enna Hittims,'' a tiny out-of-control superheroine who attacks her own creator and ends up squashed. The other stories, products of a supremely quirky imagination, certainly deserve a new showing. In ``The Sage of Theare,'' a boy finds himself by stalking his own future. Jones tackles Greek myths in ``The Girl Who Loved the Sun,'' an exploration of a girl who decides to turn into a tree. In ``What the Cat Told Me,'' cat lovers will enjoy learning the history of a rather older-than-normal kitty who used her wiles to escape an evil magician. The remaining tales are ``The Master,'' ``Dragon Reserve, Home Eight,'' and the typographically-inspired ``nad and Dan adn Quaffy.'' Those who have a few of these stories collected elsewhere may balk at the purchase, but others will relish the stories. The intriguing introduction illuminates the author's methodology, including a written admission that she finds ideas everywhere, even in typos. (Fiction. 12-14)  --Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.