The narrator of this picture book had a dear friend and reminisces about the ordinary things they used to do together until the “dear friend” found a “different friend.”
Here are collected (and reissued from the 1971 original) twelve literary fairy tales from several different European traditions, including Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale”; Barbara Leonie Picard’s “The Three Wishes”; Seumas MacManus’s “Feather o’ My Wing.”
“As it turned out, Grandmother was a far more mysterious woman than any of us knew,” begins this enigmatic and enjoyable picture book by Erdrich (The Birchbark House, rev. 5/99, and sequels), first published in 1996.