Margaret Mahy

Norvin is a very good actor, but rather plain.

Norvin looks very like a shark, and more than anything, he loves to shoot through the water like a silver arrow. But his cunning plan to clear the water at Caramel Cove badly misfires.

Illustrations and rhyming text introduce a dancing, juggling, bouncing man who appears once every five hundred years.

Mister Whistler always has a song in his head and a dance in his legs. But when he has to catch the train, he is so distracted he loses his ticket - and has to dance his way out of his clothes to find it!