Nelly May Has Her Say

by DeFelice, Cynthia; Cole, Henry

• ISBN13: 9780374398996
• ISBN10: 0374398992
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-03-19
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Summary

Nelly May Nimble and her twelve brothers and sisters live with their parents in a tiny cottage in the Bottoms, where there's never enough food to feed so many hungry mouths. Nelly May decides that she is old enough to earn her keep and takes a job as Lord Ignasius Pinkwinkle's new housekeeper and cook. Along with her many chores, Lord Pinkwinkle also expects Nelly May to learn his own special language. So Nelly May gets to work, using a wet scooperooty to hold the water she mops the floor with and then cooking supper for him, the Most Excellent of All Masters. But late that night, when a spark from the flaming-pop-and-sizzle lands on the fur-faced-fluffenbarker's wigger-wagger, Nelly May puts her foot down. She'll save his roof-topped castleorum, but she will notbe his fuzzy-dust-and-fooder any longer. A Margaret Ferguson Book

Author Biography

Cynthia DeFelice is the author of many picture books and novels, most recently Wild Life. She lives in Geneva, New York.

Henry Cole is the author and/or illustrator of more than eighty books, including A Nest for Celeste; Bravo, Livingstone Mouse! by Pamela Duncan Edwards; and And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell. He lives in Florida and Virginia.