Rumor has it that Rose's neighbor, Mr. Wintergarten, has a pet crocodile that eats children. So when Rose's ball flies over his fence, she's scared to retrieve

Rose makes friends with the dreaded Mr. Wintergarten when she asks to rescue her ball from his yard.

“Such a visual piece . . . readers young and old will return to the story to look more deeply; they won’t be disappointed.” — Booklist (starred review)

Although she sometimes resents her mother's work as a witch, a young girl decides to keep her mother just the way she is.