Larky Mavis

Name: Larky Mavis
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Brock Cole
ISBN: 9781470354596

Author: Brock Cole

Narrator: Jenny Sterlin

Unabridged: 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/01/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

Mooning about, Larky Mavis trips on three peanuts. She eats two of them, but when she sees what is in the third peanut, she can only laugh and say, "I won't eat you!" The villagers can't agree on exactly what Larky Mavis has found, but they soon have to admit that something strange and wonderful is happening in this delightful, contemporary fairy tale from Brock Cole, the award-winning author of Buttons.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dolores on December 22, 2016

Larky Mavis is my kind of girl!......more

Goodreads review by Rani on May 14, 2016

Larky Mavis finds 3 peanuts, the third contained something everyone, except Mavis, saw differently. The wonderful tale reminds us that we live and create the reality we want, it is all from within.......more

Goodreads review by Edward on July 15, 2020

Beautifully written but very odd kids book rife with religious overtones and very sad in the end. Mavis is a young girl of the early 19th century who, while eating peanuts, finds a baby worm inside one peanut shell, or so she believes. She shows the mysterious "creature" to townsfolk, who ignore her......more