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jat

One story was about pigeons that give birth to a griffin.
Another was about children that discover a monster in a well that eats anything which is thrown down.

Presumably from the 80s or early 90s.

The cover depicted a child (a girl?) lying in bed surrounded by monsters from the stories. A red griffin perched at the foot of the bed.

It was an audiobook on CD I heard around 2005-2010. Strong Wizard of Oz themes (maybe one of the other L Frank Baum books? It seemed more like the original to me though). Main elements I remember:

- It was a musical: the first number was the man character singing about living in a rose cottage with her dad, who then died

- There was a fisherman the protagonist was warned against talking to by the 'Glinda' like character, but she did anyway and was given a magic whistle

- the quest they were given was to retrieve the witches magic eye (this may be from something else)

- I'm not sure of the companion characters were traditional WoO sidekicks, or something else

- in the end, 'Glinda' turned out to be the witch in disguise, and so her warning about the fisherman was her trying to prevent the protagonist from getting her hands on the magic whistle.

- the protagonist uses the whistle to shrink the witch away into nothing

Thanks!

mzi

I don’t remember much but I do remember it being on cassettes and a brother and sister who wrote and illustrated awful stories that their parents hated, they use the bedroom wall as paper and their parents send them to a school for troubled children that has tornados around it so they have to wear cement shoes when they walk around the school
Please if anyone knows it, please let me know! It’s been driving me crazy for years

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