With wit, compassion, and humor Tim Wynne-Jones explores the fictional territory he knows best -- the prickly ties that bind families and the murky connections between imagination and real life.

Jailed for writing "The government is unfair to mice!" in his spinach, Ned Mouse comes up with a daring escape plan.

In this smart, vivid and touching novel, Tim Wynne-Jones explores the time and place of his own childhood when a kid could spend an entire summer below the radar of adults.

When the owner of a lost address book turns out to be the beautiful but desperate Natasha, the victim of an abusive husband, Rex finds himself wishing he had heroic powers, but storybook solutions are no match for real-life adult problems.

Rex uses his wits and lively imagination to get himself out of a pickle, with some sobering and surprising consequences.

Nine stories full of humor, surprise, fear and wonder, peopled by characters who are just like you, and yet very, very different.

Acclaimed author Tim Wynne-Jones turns his considerable talent to a stunning novel that is part mystery, part psychological thriller.

Young Burl Crow doesn't get many breaks but his meeting with Nathaniel Orlando Gow, the Maestro, changes Burl's life forever.