Wee Sister Strange
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
With a lyrical text and gorgeous, ethereal illustrations, here is a mesmerizing and magical original bedtime fairy tale reminiscent of Emily Winfield Martin’s Dream Animals, and perfect for reading aloud.
They say there's a girl
Who lives by the woods
In a crooked old house
With no garden but gloom.
She doesn't have parents.
No one knows her name.
But the people in town
Call her Wee Sister Strange.
Like Emily Winfield Martin’s bestselling Dream Animals, here is a bedtime read-aloud sure to entrance young listeners. Each evening, as the shadows grow long, Wee Sister Strange climbs from her window and runs into the woods. She talks to the owls and rides on a bear. She clambers up trees and dives into the bog. She is searching for something.... She looks far and wide, over forest and marsh. What is it she seeks? Why, it's a wee bedtime story to help her fall asleep!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A young forest spirit known as Wee Sister Strange travels through a forest by night, climbing to the tops of trees and diving to the bottom of bogs in search of something not revealed until the final pages. Grant (the League of Beastly Dreadfuls series) creates a poem rich with metaphor ("She drinks up the moon/ Like a cat drinking cream./ She drinks up the dark/ Like it's tea with the queen") in a story that walks a careful line between eeriness and comfort. Barefoot and clad in a yellow shift dress and crown of autumn leaves, Wee Sister Strange is an unthreatening presence, utterly at home in the woods "where no children dare roam." In moody watercolor and pencil scenes, Campbell (Who Wants a Tortoise?) uses unexpected angles to follow the sprite's nocturnal search from multiple perspectives. The metafictive conclusion (Wee Sister Strange is lulled to sleep listening to her own story being read aloud as another girl's bedtime story) brings the tale full circle in the loveliest of ways. Ages 4 8. Author's)
