Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
No one in the town of Bonnyripple ever kept a grudge. No one, that is, except old Cornelius, the Grudge Keeper.
The citizens of Bonnyripple count on Cornelius to file away their tiffs and huffs, squabbles and snits, and keep the picturesque town a pleasant place to live. But when a storm flings the people together and their grudges to the wind, will the Grudge Keeper be out of a job?
Readers will delight at the lyrical text and the hilarious expressions on each character's face as they learn the truth about keeping grudges. This timely and entertaining story about the value of forgiveness is beautifully conveyed through Rockliff's witty wordplay and Wheeler's elegant illustrations.
Synopsis
How do you resolve a grudge? Take it to the Grudge Keeper But be careful not to accumulate too many. No one in the town of Bonnyripple ever kept a grudge. No one, that is, except Cornelius, the Grudge Keeper. Ruffled feathers, petty snits, minor tiffs and major huffs, insults, umbrage, squabbles, dust-ups, and imbroglios--the Grudge Keeper received them all, large and small, tucking each one carefully away in his ramshackle cottage.
Gradually the grudges accumulate as Minnie Fletcher's goat eats Elvira Bogg's prizewinning petunias, Sylvester Quincy snags the schoolmaster's toupee, and Big Otto stomps on Lily Belle's feet during the spring fling.
One night the wind rises, flinging together the people and their grudges, scrambling the squabbles with the quibbles and piling the lows blows and the high dudgeon together. And where is Cornelius?