Award-winning author Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveries-for example, that the 1929 stock market crash was followed by a boom in puzzle sales-Drabble introduces us to her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their...

"When a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle mysteriously arrives in the mail, the Kelly family sets about putting it together. They work for months, but then--oh,no--one piece is missing. Mom is certain that it accidentally went out with the trash, so the family piles into the car to search for it at the local dump. Finding it among discarded letters, train tickets, newspapers, and old photos--countless forgotten items--seems like wishful thinking. And so...

Oliver has always dreamed about where he will fit. Will he be in the mane of a unicorn? The tentacle of a pirate squid? The helmet of an astronaut? When he finally goes in search of his perfect place, he finds that trying to fit in is a lot harder than he thought. But as with any puzzle, a little trial and error leads to a solution, and Oliver figures out exactly where he belongs.

Puzzlehead and his friends go exploring to find out where they fit in, but Puzzlehead has a hard time figuring out where he belongs.

"When Brazilian American twins Lia and Luís receive a jigsaw puzzle from their grandmother, they must quickly solve it to figure out its secret message"--Provided by publisher.