TIM O'TOOLE AND THE WEE FOLK
illustrated by Gerald McDermott
A story that draws heavily on the familiar tale about a man who wins three magical gifts that a false innkeeper then tries to purloin (cf. Grimm, "The Table, the Ass, and the Stick"). The telling here has a well-honed, Irish lilt; the illustrations, by a Caldecott winner, are lively, expressive, and well sprinkled with sprightly men in green.