Cait wrote on the main list: > Isn't there a Joan Aiken book about a little girl named Arabella and her pet > raven, Mortimer? Or was it Arabel? It was something Ara-ish.... Arabel's Raven. Yes! What a great book. With terrific illustrations by Quentin Blake, who can portray geometrically increasing chaos like no one I've ever seen. Nevermore, Amy Z