New Feet For Old
There is a peddler who wanders the countryside selling feet. He pushes his rickety cart from town to town, calling, “New feet for old! New feet for old!”
Now, this peddler’s feet are special feet. He has kangaroo feet for people who want to jump over things. He has frog feet for folks who want a spring in their step. And he has cheetah feet for those who want to run as fast as the wind.
But one day, the peddler receives an order he cannot fill. Or so he thinks…
Picture Book — Four Winds Press, Macmillan, 1992
ISBN 0-02-792371-1
The Great Zandor’s Hat
Jen hates magic, and can you blame her? Her father, a third-rate illusionist, ran off years ago and she’s stuck working at her Gigi’s tiny magic shop in Chicago when she’s not trying to survive high school. There’s nothing magical about her life. Whatsoever.
Then she befriends an old man at a nursing home who just might be the world’s greatest magician. The only problem is he’s lost his memory and can’t remember who he is – or the centuries-old object he must protect. What little he tells her makes Jen realize that real magical items actually exist – and one well-dressed monster who’s an expert at digging already has one of them. If he finds another, he can rule the earth. Or destroy it.
With no help in sight, Jen must abandon her ordinary life and jump headlong into a world of magic to save her friends and possibly the world from disaster. All she has going for her is a group of has-been magicians in moth-eaten tuxedos and an uneasy friendship with the most powerful magical item ever known. But it doesn’t trust her, and it definitely doesn’t like being woken up in the middle of the night.
[Read the Prologue and Chapter 1 here]
Young Adult novel, 2020