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When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew: Tales of Ti-Jean
69 pp.
| Groundwood |
April, 2011 |
TradeISBN 978-0-88899-952-8$16.95
(1)
4-6
Illustrated by
Dušan Petričić.
Ti-Jean, cheerful, hapless stripling of French-Canadian folklore, makes a winning appearance in three tales of European origin lightly transposed to a New World setting. Andrews is a storyteller, and these zesty, well-paced texts virtually read themselves. Source notes are appended, but these are not so much retellings or even adaptations as simpatico re-imaginings. Petričić's sly drawings underpin the fun throughout.
Reviewer: Barbara Bader
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2011