3.75 stars. Entertaining. ( )

Many of these New Hampshire and Vermont stories are hilarious. DePaola narrated the stories in such a voice that sets your imagination going. They are set in the four seasons of the year and at the end of each season there is a comic that deals with the silly things that tourists say while they go through the North Country. There are 10 stories total and my favorite is Mothah Skunk Meets Sherman Curtis about a man that smells so bad he chases skunks away. The illustrations are done in typical DePaola fashion, bright and with details that will keep children looking at the pictures long after the book is read. ( )

(I used this book for the Traditional Literature assignment.)

This is a collection of short stories set in Vermont.

These books use language and dialogue wonderfully. This would be a great book to use with kids to model how to make dialogue that sounds like real speech. It would also be a great book to use as examples of tall tales and traditional literature. The stories are fun and inventive.

I love how Tomie dePaola uses traditional folktale themes and motifs to make these unique, culturally evocative stories! ( )

Very funny! Written in the dialect of a New Englander. I liked the story about the mud season. It has a little cartoon of tourists that runs through it between tales. ( )