Tom, Babette, & Simon

From Avi, three humor­ous, thought-pro­vok­ing, and poignant tales of meta­mor­pho­sis that explore phys­i­cal and spir­i­tu­al change. Natchev’s strik­ing black-and-white illus­tra­tions enhance the spell cast by Avi’s stories.

Tom is bored all the time. When he’s giv­en a home­work assign­ment to write The Most Excit­ing Thing That Ever Hap­pened to Me, Tom real­izes that not one excit­ing thing has hap­pened to him in his entire life. Then Tom makes a deal to trade places with a cat named Charley, and some­thing very excit­ing hap­pens. But Tom may nev­er have the chance to write about his out­ra­geous adventure.

Babet­te’s moth­er, the queen, wish­es for a per­fect baby daugh­ter, and her wish is grant­ed. No one can see a sin­gle flaw in the child’s appear­ance. In fact, no one can see Babette at all. But when Babette finds out that she’s invis­i­ble, how will she see herself?

Simon is an only child whose dot­ing par­ents grant his every wish—until Simon’s demands grow so big his par­ents have noth­ing left to give him. So Simon leaves home, deter­mined to make his own great­est wish come true. He wants the whole world to admire him, and after a star­tling meet­ing with a mag­i­cal bird, he has all the atten­tion he dreamed of … but now he only wish­es to be free of it once again.