Natalie Savage Carlson

An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and children and a job for himself.

Two cats protect their catnip bed from the "witch's goat" at great cost to the goat.

Cats Spooky and Snowball sabotage the Witches' Sabbat Race, creating chaos never before seen at the event.

The twelve little French orphan girls quarrel over the choice of a pet until they find twelve orphan cats.

When the girls of the French orphanage visit the dog cemetery, Brigitte gets left behind and has an adventure with a woman whose husband is a pretender to the French throne.

Lullah Royall, a little black girl, comes to a newly-integrated parochial school in Louisiana. Then the appearance of two menacing strangers, Mr. Buzzard and Mr. Gator, is followed by abusive calls and threats of violence and suddenly the ten-year-old finds herself the only pupil in school.

The twelve orphelines come to live in their new orphanage, an old castle, where with thirty boy orphans they become over-imaginative princesses and knights.