num_pages: 144
description: The magical adventures of an eccentric Mary Poppins-esque heroine and her flying feline charges sure to charm readers big and small. The first book for children by an internationally acclaimed novelist and poet. Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are just the right size - fitting into a single magical day. She is an expert at baking and eating fancy iced cakes and her favorite mode of travel is par avion. On windy days she takes her sixteen cats out for an airing: Minky Misty Taffy Purrsia Pirate Mustard Moutarde Hemdela Earring Grigorovitch Clasby Captain Captain Captain Catkin Captain Cothespin Your Shyness and Sizzles. With the aid of her favorite tea party tablecloth as a makeshift balloon Miss Petitfour and her charges fly over her village having many little adventures along the way. Join Miss Petitfour and her equally eccentric felines on five magical outings -- a search for marmalade to a spring jumble sale on a quest for birthday cheddar the retrieval of a lost rare stamp and as they compete in the village's annual Festooning Festival. A whimsical beautifully illustrated collection of tales that celebrates language storytelling and small pleasures especially the edible kind!
language: None
title: The Adventures of Miss Petitfour
publisher: Tundra Books