The Adventures of Miss Petitfour by Anne Michaels

The Adventures of Miss Petitfour by Anne Michaels

The magical adventures of an eccentric Mary Poppins-esque heroine and her flying feline charges, sure to charm readers big and small. The first book for children by an internationally acclaimed novelist and poet.

Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are just the right size - fitting into a single, magical day. She is an expert at baking and eating fancy iced cakes, and her favorite mode of travel is par avion. On windy days, she takes her sixteen cats out for an airing: Minky, Misty, Taffy, Purrsia, Pirate, Mustard, Moutarde, Hemdela, Earring, Grigorovitch, Clasby, Captain Captain, Captain Catkin, Captain Cothespin, Your Shyness and Sizzles. With the aid of her favorite tea party tablecloth as a makeshift balloon, Miss Petitfour and her charges fly over her village, having many little adventures along the way. Join Miss Petitfour and her equally eccentric felines on five magical outings -- a search for marmalade, to a spring jumble sale, on a quest for birthday cheddar, the retrieval of a lost rare stamp and as they compete in the village's annual Festooning Festival. A whimsical, beautifully illustrated collection of tales that celebrates language, storytelling and small pleasures, especially the edible kind

Anne Michaels is the author of three critically praised poetry collections: The Weight of Oranges (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner's Pond (1991), which won the Canadian Writers Association Award and was nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award (these two volumes were reprinted in a single volume in 1997); and Skin Divers (1999). Anne Michaels' first novel, Fugitive Pieces (1996), was a multi-award-winning, international bestseller. It was the number one best-selling book in Canada for more than two years. The novel has won a number of literary awards, including the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, the Martin & Beatrice Fischer Award, the Trillium Book Award, and a Heritage Toronto Award of Merit. The Orange Prize for Fiction, the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction, and the Guardian Fiction Award are all held in the United Kingdom.

The Harold Ribalow Award and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in the United States. In Italy, the Giuseppe Acerbi Literary Prize is given. Anne Michaels is now working on her next novel in Toronto.

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ISBN 13	9781770495005
ISBN 10	1770495002
Title	The Adventures of Miss Petitfour
Author	Anne Michaels
Series	The Adventures Of Miss Petitfour
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Tundra Books
Year published	2015-11-03
Number of pages	144
Prizes	Short-listed for Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Children 2015
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.