Front Porch Tales & North Country Whoppers
These laugh-out-loud stories from New Hampshire and Vermont are set during the four seasons of the year. The storyteller in his appealing dialect tells little-known tales, among them “Mothah Skunk†and the night she had to move out with her kits because Sherman Curtis smelled so bad; the escapades of Big Gertie Benson, the lumberjacks’ cook and a cousin of the Bunyans in the Midwest; and George Petty, who delivered the mail even during mud season by standing on the back of his horse with only his head sticking out. Interspersed throughout are comic style episodes as an unsuspecting tourist tries to get information from the “locals.â€
Tomie dePaola is the acclaimed author and/or illustrator of more than 200 books for children. He is the recipient of a Newbery Honor (26 Fairmount Avenue, 1999) and a Caldecott Honor (Strega Nona, 1975). He was also awarded the Smithson Medal (from the Smithsonian), the Regina Medal (from the Catholic Library Association), and was designated a "living treasure" by the state of New Hampshire. His Brava, Strega Nona! was a New York Times bestseller. He is the first author known primarily for children's book writing to be awarded the Sarah Josepha Hale award, a prestigious distinction in writing by a New Englander. He lives in New London, New Hampshire.
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