'We're about to serve the tea,' said the rabbit. At first, Kikko isn't sure what they will say, but with the turn of the page, they greet her enthusiastically: Kikko is stunned to find a gathering of all the woodland animals. “But - he wasn't her father at all! Kikko had been following a great big bear!”Īfter a small lamb wearing a pea coat and carrying a handbag asks her if she has arrived in time for the tea party, Kikko follows the lamb inside, not sure what she'll discover. When she peers through the window, what does she see? She falls in her haste to catch up to her father, dropping the pie, but she soon scrambles up again to see her father entering an old mansion - strange, she thinks. When Kikko's father goes through the woods to deliver a pie to Grandma's house, Kikko realizes that her father has forgotten the pie! She rushes after him, her red cap and red mittens the only bright spot in the snow-blanketed forest. That book is “The Tea Party in the Woods” by Akiko Miyakoshi.īeautifully illustrated in deft strokes of charcoal, this book brings the reader into an enchanted, snow-covered world. I start off the new year with a book I discovered towards the end of the year - almost as if 2015 had one present left for me to read.
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