The weird sisters : a note, a goat, and a casserole / Mark David Smith ; illustrations by Kari Rust.
Material type:
TextSeries: The weird sisters ; [book 1]Publisher: Toronto, ON : Owlkids Books, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 69 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781771474566
- 1771474564
- Note, a goat, and a casserole
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's First Chapter Book | SMITH, MARK DAV | 1 | Available | 33111010813612 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The first book in a mystery series features three sleuthing sisters
One spring evening, three strange visitors arrive in the town of Covenly. Sisters Hildegurp, Yuckmina, and Glubbifer are hoping to start fresh with a new business: a pet store! Their first customer is nine-year-old Jessica Nibley, who has lost her pet goat and hopes the sisters can help track it down. But when the sisters discover a mangled note with missing pieces that suggests they aren't welcome in town, they suddenly have twomysteries to solve.
Jessica and the sisters jump on a broomstick and fly off to investigate. As they collect clues and get closer to solving the cases, Covenly residents start to look beyond the sisters' unusual appearances and welcome them to the community as they are.
The first volume in this whimsical chapter book mystery series is filled with hilarious misunderstandings, clever wordplay, and dynamic illustrations. The sleuthing sisters, who are inspired by the three witches from Macbeth (there's even a recipe for a witch's stew!), invite Covenly residents and readers to look past appearances and embrace people for who they are, weirdness and all.
"One spring evening, the town of Covenly gains three new residents, whose strangeness makes some of the other citizens uneasy. Hildegurp, Yuckmina, and Glubbifer set up shop, hoping for a fresh start and a new business: a pet store. Their first customer is nine-year-old Jessica Nibley, who has lost her pet goat and hopes the sisters can help track it down. But as they exit the shop, they discover a mangled note with missing pieces that suggests the sisters aren't welcome in Covenly. Now they have two mysteries to solve: a mysterious note and a missing goat. As they broom off to search for clues, they meet other Covenly residents. Eventually they figure out that Chelsea wrote the mysterious note, which she left for the sisters with a casserole. But the goat got there first, as is evident from the curious orange sauce with bits of note stuck around its mouth. Jessica fits the missing pieces into the original note, which, to their surprise, they discover to be a letter of welcome. This whimsical mystery is full of word play and humorous misunderstanding, and is also kid-empowering as Jessica takes the lead and functions as the sisters' moral compass. The creation of the sisters was inspired by Macbeth's three sisters, and the idea is that their appearance should be a little unsettling so that readers, like the residents, must learn to accept their character and not judge based on appearances. The story is also about the desire to fit in with a group while also learning to accept oneself. Like the Macbeth characters, the weird sisters make Hurlyburly soup, which is served at the end with the hint that it may have been tampered with magically. Illustrations by Kari Rust will be in black and white with roughly two per chapter. End matter includes a recipe for Hurlyburly soup with thanks to Macbeth and substitutions for hard-to-find ingredients such as toad venom and eye of newt."-- Provided by publisher.