Product Description

Twig was just a plain, ordinary little girl who lived on the fourth floor of a "high sort of house" in the city. The back yard behind that house was Twig's little world. It was a bare little world, with nothing but a dandelion and a stream of drainpipe water to make it beautiful; with nobody but Old Boy, the ice-wagon horse, Old Girl, the cat, and the Sparrows, to keep Twig company.

But one day, out in the alley, Twig found an empty tomato can, with pictures of bright red tomatoes all round it. When it was upside down, it looked like a pretty little house, just the right size for a fairy! Twig stood it upside down next to the dandelion, not far from the stream. And this is the story of what happened in and around that little house one Saturday afternoon.

A story full of magic, full of fun, full of fantasy interwoven with reality, and full of the kind of tenderness which belongs most particularly to the very young. A story both girls and boys will love.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1307797 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 152 pages

From Publishers Weekly
A girl brightens up her bare-bones world when she turns a discarded tomato can into a home for fairies in Elizabeth Orton Jones's Twig. This 60th-anniversary edition features original artwork by Jones, who won the Caldecott Medal for her work in Prayer for a Child.
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The New York Times
Miss Jones, who knows children well, has told stories with warmth and simplicity.

About the Author
Elizabeth Orton Jones, nicknamed Twig more than fifty years ago, was born on June 25, 1910 in Highland Park, Illinois. In the 1940s she moved to a house in Mason, New Hampshire bought with her first royalty check from TWIG.

Ms. Jones has written and illustrated more than 20 books for children, in 1945 she won the Caldecott Medal for Prayer for a Child.