The characters and events in this book are fictitious.

Any similarity to real characters or real events is very

interesting. Does this happen to you often?

A special thanks to Lloyd Alexander, Daniel

Pinkwater, and the E. B. White estate for allowing their

characters to appear in this book. May millions of kids

meet the Horned King, Henrietta, and Charlotte, and

go find them in their original books.

to all of those authors who saved me /

Dedicated

from getting killed by summer reading: --

Aesop, Lloyd Alexander, Natalie Babbitt, Ludwig

Bemelmans, Raymond Briggs, Jeff Brown, Eric Carle, Lewis

Carroll, John Christopher, Beverly Cleary, Roald Dahl,

Daniel Defoe, Marjorie Flack, Esther Forbes, Jean Craighead

George, William Golding, Kenneth Grahame, Florence Parry

Heide, James Howe, Washington Irving, Crockett Johnson,

Ruth Krauss, C. S. Lewis, Astrid Lindgren, Arnold Lobel,

Patricia MacLachlan, James Marshall, Robert McCIoskey,

Herman Melville, A. A. Milne, Peggy Parish, Katherine

Paterson, Gary Paulsen, Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Beatrix

Potter, H. A. Rey, W. H. D. Rouse, Louis Sachar, Dr. Seuss,

Marjorie W. Sharmat, Mary Shelley, Donald J. Sobol,

William Steig, Robert Louis Stevenson, Brain Stoker,

Rosemary Sutcliff, J. R. R. Tolkien, P. L. Travers, Mark

Fwain, Jules Verne, E. B. White and Laura Ingalls Wilder.