Tell Me a Mitzi [Hardcover]

Three hilarious, quirky tales about a young city girl's adventures big and small.

Mitzi lives with her mother and father and her baby brother in the big city where every day is an adventure. Or at least Mitzi makes it one, though sometimes the adventure is more than a little surprising. One day it’s time to pay an impromptu visit to her grandparents. And what will happen when the president comes to town? Who knows what Mitzi will get up to next?

In Tell Me a Mitzi Lore Segal’s droll dialogue and off-kilter storytelling is beautifully matched by Harriet Pincus’s gritty and colorful illustrations. These are stories that capture childhood in all its puzzlement, resourcefulness, and unsentimental wonder. A must! —School Library Journal

Thanks to Lore Segal's antic words, and Harriet Pincus's antic pictures, children will find Tell Me a Mitzi a hilarious picnic. —Publishers Weekly

Author and illustrator have caught the essence of childhood in this captivating picture book. The three stories mix fantasy with reality and are told with naturalness and warmth. The illustrations, so filled with details and surprises they invite repeated scrutiny, have verity and vitality, poignancy and endearing humor. —Booklist, starred review

A remarkable joint tour de force. —The Washington Post Book World

This is possibly one of the funniest books in print. —The Saturday Review

The fantasy is as real as tomorrow's ice cream cone, the three Mitzi stories more than bull's-eyes. . . . A triumph. —Kirkus

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