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The Little Gentleman
By Pearce, Philippa
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06073-160-1 978-0-06073-161-8
- Publisher
- Greenwillow
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2004
Gr 3-5 When Mr. Franklin is laid up with a broken leg, he asks young Bet, the granddaughter of his cleaning woman, to read aloud in what appears to be an empty meadow. It turns out that her audience is a mole, who befriends Bet and tells her of the inadvertent role he played in the death of King William III and his subsequent transformation by a witch from an ordinary animal into one t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2004
One day in 1702 King William III went riding. His horse stumbled on a molehill and the king was thrown. A few weeks later, he died. Loyal Jacobites rejoiced in the event and ever afterward drank toasts to the mole, "the little gentleman in black velvet." From an obscure historical anecdote Pearce fashions a tale featuring this same mole, who gains immortality and the capacity for human speech through an encounter with magic herbs. He pops up in our twenty-first-century world to enco...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
