It is wise, warm and witty, written in poetic form with charming illustrations. Evie produced this book herself. Thank you Hillary. Since you wrote I have met Evie Wilson, and read two of her three books. I agree with you they are totally delightful.
Short essays introduce each print.
Tell it to a Pelican also is hand bound and decorated with beads tied to the raffia binding. It's a reflection on love told in rhyming verse as a discussion between the author and a pelican. To a sophisticated, jaded and cynical aesthete such as me the rhyming couplets made it difficult to take seriously. However, soon I was enchanted, interested and amused. I discovered a pelican feather tucked into a little pocket on the inside cover.