Nancy Willard

"Janes and Danny are on a mission: to get the little silver race car out of the gumball machine at Mr. Wrights store. Only very, very, lucky people get both gumballs and the silver racer. It's a good thing one of James's quarter is a Canadian quarter, which just so happens to be very, very lucky. But is it lucky enough to get him that silver racer." -- Jacket.

Inspired by William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of poetry for children brings to life Blake's imaginary inn and its unusual guests.

A retelling, set in the early 1900's in New York City, of the traditional tale in which a kind and beautiful young woman, through her great capacity to love, releases a handsome young man from the spell which has made him into an ugly beast.