The chewing-gum rescue
By: Margaret Mahy ; illustrated by Jan Ormerod
Contributors: Ormerod, Jan, ill
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Woodstock, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780879514242
Subjects: Short stories; Children's stories, New Zealand
Description: A collection of short stories by the noted New Zealand author, including "The Giant's Bath," "The Pumpkins of Witch Ginger," and "The Devil and the Corner Grocer."
Notes: "Ages 8-12"--Jkt.
Table of contents: title: Chewing-gum rescue; title: Giant's bath; title: Midnight story on Griffon Hill; title: Pumpkins of witch crunch; title: Worlds highest tray cloth; title: Boy who made things up; title: Tatty patchwork rubbish dump dancers; title: Traveling boy and the stay-at-home bird; title: Gloves and gardens; title: Singing bus queue; title: Devil and the corner grocer.