With a storyteller's cadence, Shelley Moore Thomas (Good Night, Good Knight) introduces Trinket, who has always loved stories.
Trinket's father, James the Bard, made a living traveling, "story-collecting" and storytelling. One day, when Trinket was six, her father set off and failed to return. Upon her mother's death years later, Trinket sets out to discover what became of him, her only companions an old map of her father's and Thomas the Pig Boy, her closest friend. Thomas divides Trinket's journey into seven tales, each involving a different fantastical creature. Will they find James the Bard? Will Trinket ever work up the courage to become a storyteller in her own right?
The Seven Tales of Trinket makes an ideal book to be read aloud and savored, perhaps one tale a night, the way a bard might deliver a story in exchange for food and a cozy place to rest. --Molly McLeod Magro, middle school librarian