Best shorts : favorite short stories for sharing
Rogue wave / The caller / Scout's honor / The dog of Pompeii / LAFFF / Rip Van Winkle / Nuts / Flight of the swan / Ho-ichi the Earless / The lady who put salt in her coffee / The town cats / Zlateh the goat / To starch a spook / The night of the pomegranate / The librarian and the robbers / The woman in the snow / The binnacle boy / The baby in the night deposit box / The circuit / The Widow Carey's chickens / The special powers of Blossom Culp / A white heron / Jimmy takes vanishing lessons / The lady or the tiger?
Avi, 1937-
Shute, Carolyn.
Paterson, Katherine.
Raschka, Christopher, ill.
Theodore Taylor -- Robert D. San Souci -- Avi -- Louis Untermeyer -- Lensey Namioka -- Washington Irving -- Natalie Babbitt -- Marian Flandrick Bray -- Rafe Martin -- Lucretia P. Hale -- Lloyd Alexander -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Andrew Benedict -- Tim Wynne-Jones -- Margaret Mahy -- Patricia McKissack -- Paul Fleischman -- Megan Whalen Turner -- Francisco Jiménez -- Gerald Hausman -- Richard Peck -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Walter R. Brooks -- Frank Stockton.
selected by Avi with Carolyn Shute ; [with an afterword by Katherine Paterson ; illustrations by Chris Raschka].
