The Adventures of Miss Petitfour
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
The magical adventures of an eccentric Mary Poppins-esque heroine and her flying feline charges, sure to charm readers big and small. The first book for children by an internationally acclaimed novelist and poet.
Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are "just the right size - fitting into a single, magical day." She is an expert at baking and eating fancy iced cakes, and her favorite mode of travel is par avion. On windy days, she takes her sixteen cats out for an airing: Minky, Misty, Taffy, Purrsia, Pirate, Mustard, Moutarde, Hemdela, Earring, Grigorovitch, Clasby, Captain Captain, Captain Catkin, Captain Cothespin, Your Shyness and Sizzles. With the aid of her favorite tea party tablecloth as a makeshift balloon, Miss Petitfour and her charges fly over her village, having many little adventures along the way. Join Miss Petitfour and her equally eccentric felines on five magical outings -- a search for marmalade, to a spring jumble sale, on a quest for "birthday cheddar", the retrieval of a lost rare stamp and as they compete in the village's annual Festooning Festival. A whimsical, beautifully illustrated collection of tales that celebrates language, storytelling and small pleasures, especially the edible kind!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her first children's book, adult author Michaels presents five stories driven equally by whimsy and self-aware humor. They concern Miss Petitfour, a lithe, redheaded young woman with 16 cats and a tendency to go where the wind takes her. Quite literally: she travels by catching breezes with a tablecloth, her cats trailing behind her like a kite's tail. Michaels is fond of digressions, one of many vocabulary words she highlights as the narrative comments on the peculiarities of storytelling ("Certain words are like twists of crumpled paper jammed into the hole in the bottom of a leaky pail, to keep the story from spilling out too quickly"). Block's delicate color illustrations are ideally suited to Miss Petitfour's subdued and decidedly eccentric adventures, which involve everything from an empty marmalade jar to a lost stamp. Ages 6 9.
