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Mimi Power and the I-don’t-know-what by Victoria Miles
Mimi Power and the I-don't-know-what by Victoria Miles (Tradewind Books $12.95)
At age nine, mimi power is a budding artist, a reluctant swimmer and the long-suffering older sister to tyrannical three-year-old Lily June, better known as "The Waby.";
The Waby screams blue murder if she doesn't get the desired colour of gummy bear vitamin and, proudly potty-trained, virtuously flushes their movie-location-scout father's prized fossilized poo down the john.
The toddler's "fire engine"; tantrums rattle their already-loopy market research mother so much that she's known to leave the house still wearing her telephone headset.
And when The Waby's beloved Bunny Jim disappears, and is spotted dangling from the back of a garbage truck, and no amount of polite requests to the burly driver work, even after they shockingly morph into Incredible Hulk-like threats from their father, Mimi saves the day with the sacrifice of her souvenir red double-decker pen.
But when The Waby's chocolate-pudding-finger-painting additions to Mimi's masterpiece for the school's art auction fundraiser crush any hope her class has of winning a pizza lunch with the opportunity to have a visiting lizard crawl on their heads, Mimi's "Mimi Power"; fails her. Until inspiration strikes and Mimi channels a solution from her recently acquired fascination with the artist Henri Matisse.
Victoria Miles' Mimi Power and the I-don't-know-what is illustrated by the prolific Marc Mongeau. Victoria Miles is also the award-winning author of Magnifico, Old Mother Bear. She lives in North Vancouver with her husband, photographer David Nunuk.
978-1-896580-65-4
At age nine, mimi power is a budding artist, a reluctant swimmer and the long-suffering older sister to tyrannical three-year-old Lily June, better known as "The Waby.";
The Waby screams blue murder if she doesn't get the desired colour of gummy bear vitamin and, proudly potty-trained, virtuously flushes their movie-location-scout father's prized fossilized poo down the john.
The toddler's "fire engine"; tantrums rattle their already-loopy market research mother so much that she's known to leave the house still wearing her telephone headset.
And when The Waby's beloved Bunny Jim disappears, and is spotted dangling from the back of a garbage truck, and no amount of polite requests to the burly driver work, even after they shockingly morph into Incredible Hulk-like threats from their father, Mimi saves the day with the sacrifice of her souvenir red double-decker pen.
But when The Waby's chocolate-pudding-finger-painting additions to Mimi's masterpiece for the school's art auction fundraiser crush any hope her class has of winning a pizza lunch with the opportunity to have a visiting lizard crawl on their heads, Mimi's "Mimi Power"; fails her. Until inspiration strikes and Mimi channels a solution from her recently acquired fascination with the artist Henri Matisse.
Victoria Miles' Mimi Power and the I-don't-know-what is illustrated by the prolific Marc Mongeau. Victoria Miles is also the award-winning author of Magnifico, Old Mother Bear. She lives in North Vancouver with her husband, photographer David Nunuk.
978-1-896580-65-4
Submitted on March 8, 2013 in By David.
