Mademoiselle Grands Doigts: A Cajun New Yr’s Eve Story

A curse isn’t any match for a beneficiant coronary heart.

As soon as upon a time on New Yr’s Eve night time, lots of of suitors lined as much as kiss the swish fingers of Mademoiselle Grands Doigts. Jealous of the beautiful maiden, the opposite women solid a horrible gris gris turning her right into a creature with lengthy gnarled fingers and warts. Ashamed, she vanished, by no means to be seen once more. The resentful women turned as inexperienced as their hearts and fled to the swamp. Now, each New Yr’s Eve, Mademoiselle Grands Doigts finds good kids and fills their sneakers with treats proving fairly is as fairly does. Johnette Downing deftly weaves this barely scary Cajun morality story accompanied by the moody colours of Heather Stanley’s luscious illustrations.