These seafaring tales begin on a street corner where Jim, a retired sailor, spends his days, passing the time telling a curious boy named Derry about life aboard his ship, the Rockinghorse. In the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses and Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, Farjeon’s tales of talking sea serpents and stew-eating chimpanzees bring the far near and turn ordinary weather into an astronomical adventure. With pen-and-ink illustrations by the maritime master artist Edward Ardizzone, Jim at the Corner is an old-fashioned adventure for the eyes and the ears.

A teenage boy on trial can see and heal the human light fields, drawing comparisons to Christ while the world argues over his case. Sequel to The Little Universe, Jim gets his wish for the full human experience. Nurses want to sleep with him, skeptics to debunk him, patients need his healing touch, and still others want to train him to use his gifts and be the teacher he was destined to become.

When he died in 1933, James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was honored by two distinguished groups of people: the professional boxing public, who celebrated him as America's greatest boxing champion, and the world of popular theater admirers, who revered him as one of Broadway's top vaudeville headliners. Corbett was uniquely instrumental in making boxing and popular theater both justifiable commercial enterprises, to be enjoyed by all classes of people. He became America's first national sports hero and went on to formulate the theater world's star system. This is the first definitive biography of the man who knocked out heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan, and who also knocked out audiences who flocked to see him in vaudeville and silent pictures. The focus herein is on the real man, the influences on his life, and the social and commercial environment within which he functioned. The author reveals that Corbett was a complex, driven, enigmatic man whose dedicated participation in popular entertainment changed American social values and mores, and at the same time reinvented the notion of a national hero.

Shivers and Casey Visit Jim’s Corner Market is a charming children’s tale about a kitten named Shivers and a puppy named Casey who live next door to each other. Best friends, the two go off on adventures together and always have a fun time. But occasionally they get into trouble! Today they’re off to visit Jim’s Corner Market. On the way, they pass a pond, but both end up falling into the water. When they get to the market, they wait for the door to open before heading in different directions to get their treats. Leaving the market, they have to get past Jim at the door, who’s holding a broom. They run to the park where they decide to get a drink from a wading pool. Just then, a big ball hits the water and splashes them both. Then a squirrel runs past them, and they both get excited. Shivers runs up the tree after the squirrel but can’t catch it. Then she realizes she’s up on a high tree limb and slips, falling on top of Casey. What will happen to these two next?