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200 pp.
| Bloomsbury
| May, 2010
|
TradeISBN 978-1-59990-464-1$15.99
(4)
4-6
Illustrated by
C. B. Canga.
Hoping to save the family farm, seemingly average Pierre, with the help of hammy narrator Aurore, delivers his family's pickles to a contest, facing danger at every turn. The story, with its outrageous coincidences and wacky characters, works a little too hard at trying to achieve effortless whimsy.