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Chargement... The Three Mouths of Little Tom Drumpar Nancy Willard
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"Little Tom Drum loves strawberry pie so much that he creeps down to the kitchen at night to get one more slice of that sweet, flaky goodness resting on the windowsill in the moonlight ... pie his mother made for tomorrow's birthday party. If only he had thought twice! Bearing the marks of his greediness, Tom Drum resigns himself to a reclusive life, but soon gains fame as a child inventor. Can his imagination and ingenuity lead to his own reinvention" -- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Given author Nancy Willard's many folk and fairy-tale retellings - my personal favorite is her Hudson Valley version of Beauty and the Beast - I think it safe to say that the name of the eponymous hero of The Three Mouths of Little Tom Drum is a reference to Tom Thumb, the mischievous pint-sized protagonist of the first English-language fairy-tale ever recorded (in 1621). Although Willard's Tom is not the size of a thumb, he certainly does get himself into a scrape! All that said, although this reference will be of interest to folklore enthusiasts, I found myself somewhat ambivalent about the actual story here. I see online reviewers were put off by Willard's decision to have Tom Drum hidden away by his parents, as this is not the proper course of action to take, with children who look different from their peers. I wasn't particularly bothered by this, as it's clear that there is a fairy-tale element to Willard's story, and that it is not meant to be taken as a realistic narrative. On the other hand, illustrator Kevin Hawkes does dedicate the book to homeschoolers, so take that as you will. For my part, I just found the story a bit scattered, with too many disparate elements - the three-mouth punishment, the wish machine, the inventions, the social exclusion, etc. - that didn't seem to quite fit together in one organic whole. The artwork, as is always the case with Hawkes, was very appealing, but all in all, this isn't one I would particularly recommend. ( )