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Twig

Written By: Elizabeth Orton Jones
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Twig was just a plain, ordinary little girl who lived on the fourth floor of
a "high sort of house" in the city. The back yard behind that house was Twig's
little world. It was a bare little world, with nothing but a dandelion and a
stream of drainpipe water to make it beautiful; with nobody but Old Boy, the
ice-wagon horse, Old Girl, the cat, and the Sparrows, to keep Twig company.
But one day, out in the alley, Twig found an empty tomato can, with pictures of
bright red tomatoes all round it. When it was upside down, it looked like a
pretty little house, just the right size for a fairy! Twig stood it upside down
next to the dandelion, not far from the stream. And this is the story of what
happened in and around that little house one Saturday afternoon.
A story full of magic, full of fun, full of fantasy interwoven with reality, and
full of the kind of tenderness which belongs most particularly to the very
young. A story both girls and boys will love.
Product Details
Publisher: Purple House Pres
Date Published: January 1, 2002
Format: hardcover
Pages: 152 pages
Reviews:
From Publishers Weekly
A girl brightens up her bare-bones world when she turns a discarded tomato can
into a home for fairies in Elizabeth Orton Jones's Twig. This 60th-anniversary
edition features original artwork by Jones, who won the Caldecott Medal for her
work in Prayer for a Child.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
The New York Times
Miss Jones, who knows children well, has told stories with warmth and
simplicity.