One Potato, Two Potato by Cynthia C Defelice

One Potato, Two Potato by Cynthia C Defelice

This retelling of a Chinese folktale pays tribute to the author's Irish heritage, and to the joys of an old marriage, new friendships, and the impulse to share.

Mr. and Mrs. O'Grady are so poor they have just one of everything to share - one potato a day, one chair, one blanket full of holes, and one gold coin for a rainy day. After digging up the last potato in their patch, Mr. O'Grady comes upon a big black object. It's a pot - no ordinary pot, for what they soon discover is that whatever goes into it comes out doubled! Suddenly the O'Gradys aren't destitute anymore. But what they really long for is one friend apiece. Can the magic pot give them that?

Using pen and gouache, the artist Andrea U'ren shows the "simple" characters in all their winning complexity.

Cynthia DeFelice's One Potato, Two Potato is a Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Cynthia DeFelice is the author of a number of children's books, including The Ghost of Fossil Glen and The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs, The Ghost of Cutler Creek, Wild Life, Signal, The Lost Manatee, and Weasel are just a few of the titles available. Her works have been nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award and named Outstanding Children's Books by the American Library Association and Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year by Bank Street, among other accolades.