The Adventures of Miss Petitfour
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Publisher Description
A beautifully illustrated children's book from award-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels, ideal for cake and cat lovers from six to sixty!
'Practically purr-fect' – Daily Mail
Meet the utterly irresistible Miss Petitfour (a name of unknown origin but possibly descended from bakers of tiny delicious cakes). She loves baking and making and dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly. All she has to do is pick up a favourite tablecloth (preferably the one with the paisley print), catch the breeze and she swooshes off on an adventure – with her many cats (Minky, Misty, Taffy, Purrsia, Pirate, Mustard, Moutarde, Hemdala, Earring, Grigorovich, Clasby, Captain Captain, Captain Catkin, Captain Clothespin, Your Shyness and Sizzles) dangling paw-to-tail behind her.
In five utterly captivating stories of gentle adventure, delicious edibles (with cheese for the cats), occasional peril and heart-zinging warmth, poet and novelist Anne Michaels (author of bestselling, award-winning Fugitive Pieces) makes a charming, purrfect debut as a children's author.
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.
