The Toymaker's Castle

Alan and Jane Flinders do love their Uncle Barnaby. The townspeople may be quick to call Barnaby a cruel and cheap mayor but that’s only because the townspeople don’t want to pay him what he deserves for running this town as well as he does. He tells them so. Letting the local children know this doesn’t seem to help them make friends somehow. But that’s all right because they Alan and Jane have the Pipers and there are quite a lot of Piper children. As they grow up Alan even falls for one Mary Piper and he knows they are destined to be together. Imagine his surprise when he returns from nearly drowning at sea to discover Uncle Barnaby has been courting his dear Mary! Mary! Quite contrary indeed! This is a retelling of the classic Toyland story but without the fairy tale-colored lenses.