Product Description: This volume is filled with inspiring quotations to encourage people starting over in some aspect of their life. The editor, Elizabeth Ratisseau, assembled them over many, many years of book-loving and reading. She started collecting inspiring quotes when her mother died and she needed words of consolation and redirection...read more

Product Description: In this sequel to our popular title Fairies (1998) Miss Ratisseau focuses on the encounters between humans and fairies. These meetings are always powerful - sometimes delightful, sometimes frightening. Fairies are most likely to reveal themselves to children, and such events are richly depicted with wonderful illustrations from old children's books...read more

Product Description: Like the other books in our Magical Beings series, this one is a compact introduction to complex and intriguing aspects of reality. Here, Elizabeth Ratisseau presents magicians from legend and story. Magicians cause change through their supernatural powers...read more

Product Description: Guardian angels are spiritual beings who watch closely over the affairs of humans, particularly children. Such beings are common in many cultures, but are centrally present in Christian, Jewish, and Mohammedan traditions. Miss Ratisseau gives a concise summary of the role of guardian angels, provides an array of quotations and first person reminiscences, and illustrates it with a largely unfamiliar range of paintings and illustrations...read more

Offers a collection of artwork, quotations, and poems about fairies, looking at fairies of earth, air, fire, water, and childhood

Miss Lucy, a doll, presides over a welcoming house inhabited by Mr. Rabbit, Chester Dog, Bartholomew the Kangaroo, and Mr. Bear, whose lives are full of gentle dramas and happy events