The collection also appeals to the adult reader taking the reader back to the days of innocence and youth. The illustrations bring one back to specific places, ages and times. All of the animals were frightened away. Their loud stampeding awoke a little frog. The frog eventually solves the problem.
Beautiful illustrations support the interesting story line.
Although Petite Mama was tiny, she was a hard worker and very strong. She lived on the Isle of Spice in the Caribbean way up in the mountains. Further up the mountains just past her nutmeg trees, there was a bottomless lake in the middle of a volcano. Petite Mama said that a young black woman lived on this lake. Petite Mama was the only one who had ever seen The Nutmeg Princess.