This book includes three stories:

1- Feathertop

He had been made to be a man, and yet he was not a man - just a puff of smoke and a bundle of sticks. He was as good as any man, though. Or wasn’t he perhaps too good to be a man?

2- The Magic Sandals of Wallachi

Among the Lord Inca’s messengers there was one named Wallachi. He was brave, intelligent and a strong runner. But Wallachi had one weakness….

3- The Boy who Painted Cats

Very late in the night, he was awakened by the most terrible noise, a noise of fighting and screaming…. The walls of the church seemed to shake. The boy, however, was too frightened to leave his hiding place.