Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal — a monkey's paw. Outside, in the dark, the visitor smiles and waits for the door to open.

We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King! cried Sapt. If we're caught, we'll all be killed! So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will rescue him from his enemies, the dangerous Duke Michael and Rupert of Hentzau? And who will win the heart of the beautiful Princess Flavia?

I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully... It was a footprint — the footprint of a man! In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend — or an enemy?