Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Seripity, and the power of longing, win a friend for an adorable mole." --
People"A predictable happy ending reached by an unpredictable route: what more satisfying formula for a story?" --Booklist
"A beguiling union of text and art." --Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
One day Mordant the mole looks up at the sky and sees a cloud shaped like a turtle . . . When Mordant the mole wishes for a friend, he sets off a chain of events that gracefully lead the reader to the happiest of endings.
Synopsis
"A sunny, circuitous smile maker.... Mordant the mole wishes for a turtle friend, then blows on a dandelion.... Thus is set in motion a deliciously improbable chain of events that ends where it should, with a wish fulfilled. A predictable happy ending reached by an unpredictable route: what more satisfying formula for a story?" --
BooklistAbout the Author
Valerie Coursen graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has also illustrated
The Poodle Who Barked at the Wind by Charlotte Zolotow, which will be published Fall 2001. She lives in Narberth, Pennsylvania.