A Small Pinch of Weather Author:Joan Aiken, Pat Marriott (Illustrator) Imagine ordering a sunny day from the local weather witch, asking an apple tree to answer the telephone and making a beautiful garden out of old cereal boxes. What would you do if you inherited a real hair loom, or found three ugly old ladies and a dragon on your doorstep. — Anything is magically possible in these twelve short stories by gifted s... more »tory-teller Joan Aiken.