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Little Pierre may be small, but he's got more marbles rolling round in his itty-bitty noggin than his four big, lazy brothers heaped together. Yet they just call him runt and ignore him. Course, when the good-for-nothing brothers flub their attempt to rescue a damsel in distress from the Swamp Ogre, it falls on Little Pierre to rescue them. Will this half-pint hero find out that his brothers were right all along—brains don't beat brawn?
Robert D. San Souci and David Catrow, the creators of the acclaimed Cinderella Skeleton, serve up a Cajun-spiced Tom Thumb tale straight from the ...

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Little Pierre may be small, but he's got more marbles rolling round in his itty-bitty noggin than his four big, lazy brothers heaped together. Yet they just call him runt and ignore him. Course, when the good-for-nothing brothers flub their attempt to rescue a damsel in distress from the Swamp Ogre, it falls on Little Pierre to rescue them. Will this half-pint hero find out that his brothers were right all along—brains don't beat brawn?
Robert D. San Souci and David Catrow, the creators of the acclaimed Cinderella Skeleton, serve up a Cajun-spiced Tom Thumb tale straight from the Louisiana bayou.
Includes a glossary of Cajun words and an author's note about the origin of the story.

A very tiny but clever boy outwits his older brothers, an ogre, an alligator, and a giant catfish to rescue a rich man's daughter in this Cajun version of a French fairy tale.

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When Tom Thumb, the diminutive star of European folklore, emigrated to Louisiana, he was reborn among Cajun storytellers as Ti-Poucet (the "ti" comes from the French "petit" or "small"). This frisky retelling casts the tiny fellow as Little Pierre, brother to the entertainingly lazy and witless crew of Big Pierre, Fat Pierre, Wise Pierre and Foolish Pierre. Dreaming of reward money, the older boys hatch a plan to free Marie-Louise, the daughter of a rich man, who has been kidnapped by a dangerously "tricksy" swamp ogre, so they won't have to work. When Fat Pierre points out that they don't work now, Wise Pierre offers this pearl: "When you rich,... you can hire folks to not do work for you. Then you can not do twice as much as you ain't done before. That's rit-ma-tick." Plans go awry, of course, and it falls to brainy Little Pierre to rescue his bungling brothers and Marie-Louise. San Souci (The Talking Eggs) and Catrow (Plantzilla) communicate sheer delight in the tale's zany hyperbole. The Cajun dialect and funny colloquialisms seem organic to San Souci's cadenced storytelling, while Catrow's mottled, high-wattage watercolors ratchet up the absurdity with grossly exaggerated caricatures. While the brothers exhibit delectable dim-bulb features like vacant expressions and gravity-defying pompadours, jug-eared Little Pierre resembles a young (yet still balding) Ross Perot. Ages 5-8. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Long ago in the bayous of Louisiana a trapper named Pierre has four good-for-not-much sons. A tiny but very wise fifth son called Little Pierre is welcomed by his parents; he is as hard-working as his brothers are lazy. When Marie-Louise, the daughter of the richest man in the bayou, is stolen by an ogre, the four brothers decide to rescue her for the reward, which includes her hand in marriage. They don't want Little Pierre to join them, but he follows them. Cleverly, he saves them from disaster and manages to free Marie-Louise for his just reward. The tale, told with lively relish, is sprinkled with Cajun words; a glossary is provided. Catrow's double-page lush watercolor scenes are lit by the yellow-green glow of the swamp. His characters reflect their attributes: neckless Fat Pierre, goofy, chinless Foolish Pierre, adorable Little Pierre. We see only parts of the Swamp Ogre, enough to stimulate our imagination to complete the horrible image. Although the text is lengthy, there is enough room for the exaggerated visuals to add humor and emotional overtones. The author's note lists his sources, basing his hero on Ti-Poucet, the traditional French form of Tom Thumb. 2003, Silver Whistle/Harcourt, Ages 5 to 8.
— Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780152024826
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 9/1/2003
  • Pages: 32
  • Sales rank: 452,469
  • Age range: 5 - 8 Years
  • Lexile: AD790L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 10.30 (w) x 10.28 (h) x 0.36 (d)

Meet the Author

DAVID CATROW is a political cartoonist and the illustrator of many popular books for children, including the Book Sense 76 Top Ten selection Don't Take Your Snake for a Stroll by Karin Ireland. He lives in Springfield, Ohio.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 12, 2009

    Completely entertaining, lots of lessons for kids

    Our five year old borrowed this book from the library, and will be receiving his own copy for XMAS. He absolutely loved this book. Its a great adventure. Lots of fun and laugh out loud action. San Souci and Catrow are master story tellers. If you read this story in with a Cajun accent - its even better.
    Recommended by an education psychologist

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