Children come to visit a little girl who lives all alone inside a castle that is housed inside of a museum.

Once popular, an increasingly shabby library book grows lonely until a young girl rediscovers it. When it becomes lost, both the book and the girl wonder whether they will have a happy ending.

"A little girl refuses to brush her hair, but when a team of mice takes up residence in her tangled locks, she faces a tough decision--to brush or not to brush."-- "Una niña se niega a cepillarse el pelo, pero cuando un equipo de los ratones se instala en sus cabellos enredados, se enfrenta a una decisión difícil - para cepillar o no cepillar."--

Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this follow-up to the bestselling My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. "Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse--his cremains in a bullet. Here ... are your favorite mythological figures--Daedalus and Icarus, Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, even Argos, Odysseus's faithful...