![]() ![]() ![]() What do the trolls do with the people and animals they claim? No one knows-and there’s quite a few jokes earlier in the book about critters eating people, so we can strike that off the list. Unfortunately, the “thing” in question is usually a person, and once you give something to the trolls, you can never get it back. People who want to get rid of something badly sometimes leave that thing on the beach for the trolls to find. Violence: Sally’s Uncle Louis claims that the woods along the beach on Vancouver are inhabited by nocturnal trolls. Pee Wee is too young to notice, but his sisters do, and are drawn to it even as they dread it… The tales are full of witty observations, sometimes uproariously funny, but there lurks an undercurrent of darkness. They’re the stories of growing up on Vancouver Island in the late sixties and early seventies that their father has never told them. So they’re quite unprepared for the charismatic and whimsical figure that arrives, with her towering blonde beehive of hair, her fondness for green beans and surprise meat loaf, her talent for drawing, and most of all her storytelling abilities.įor Sally’s stories so transfix her nieces and nephew that they’d rather listen to her than watch TV. They’ve never even seen a picture of their Aunt Sally the only proof of her existence till now has been the card, featuring a moose with tree lights strung in his antlers, that she sends them every Christmas. They’re familiar enough with their Aunt Lyla, and they know that Uncle Edward drowned at sea on his honeymoon years ago, but that’s about it. Melissa (age ten), Amanda (age eight), and Frank (age six)-called Pee Wee by his sisters-know very little about their father’s large, eccentric, Canadian family. With the usual babysitter out of commission, the kids are left in the care of their Aunt Sally, whom they have never met before. The three Anderson children’s parents are going to France for a week’s vacation. She lives on Vancouver Island with her husband and two daughters. Now that her children are in school, she spends the whole day writing, unless she sneaks out to buy groceries, lured away from her desk by the thought of fresh Cheez Whiz. She has taught ballet, waitressed, done temporary typing, and tended babies, but while doing these things she has always also written. She attended the Canadian College of Dance in Toronto and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York City. Christie Award, the international White Raven, and the Young Adult Canadian Book of the Year. Her numerous awards include the Newbery Honor, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature, the Mr. Polly Horvath is the author of many books for young people, including Everything on a Waffle, The Pepins and Their Problems, The Canning Season and The Trolls. ![]()
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