The Three Mouths of Little Tom Drum

(Hardback)

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Lack of self-control has shocking consequences, but inventiveness carries the day in a contemporary fairy tale from Newbery Medalist Nancy Willard, with art by Kevin Hawkes.

Little Tom Drum loves strawberry pie so much that he creeps down to the kitchen at night to get one more slice of that sweet, flaky goodness resting on the windowsill in the moonlight . . . pie his mother made for tomorrows birthday party. If only he had thought twice! Bearing the marks of his greediness, Tom Drum resigns himself to a reclusive life, but soon gains fame as a child inventor. Can his imagination and ingenuity lead to his own reinvention Kevin Hawkess comical illustrations, brimming with creativity, add to the fantastic and the cautionary in this original fairy tale by award-winning poet Nancy Willard.

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The tale enthralls... especially with Hawkess lush pen-and-ink panels, a winsome combination of small-town wholesomeness and mechanical fantasy.
Publishers Weekly

Newbery medalist Willards gentle tale has an irresistible premise and is filled with invention and imagination, matched by Hawkes apposite, softly rendered pictures in pen, ink, and pastel. Its a treat matched only by Little Toms strawberry pie!
Booklist

Hawkes' detailed pen-and-ink-and-pastel illustrations extend Willard's deadpan humor with just enough creepiness. ... Inventors and pie lovers will find this one delicious.
Kirkus Reviews

The story is beautifully illustrated in pen and ink with pastel. The art pairs nicely with the fairy talelike mood of the story.
School Library Journal

Pairs realism and whimsy.
Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books

Author Bio

Nancy Willard is the author of numerous books for children and adults, including A Visit to William Blakes Inn, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, which was a Newbery Medal winner, a National Book Award Finalist, and a Caldecott Honor Book. Nancy Willard lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Kevin Hawkes is the illustrator and author-illustrator of a number of popular books for children, including Weslandia by Paul Fleischman, commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen, a New York Times bestseller. Kevin Hawkes lives in Gorham, Maine.