Happy St. Patrick's Day: The Leprechaun's Gold

Cover of The Leprechaun's Gold

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all my readers! Have you ever met a leprechaun? Last Sunday I captured this beautiful site with my point and shoot camera. I do love a rainbow! I hope you have a very fine day!

"Long ago, before even your great-great-grandfather was born, there lived in a small village in Ireland a man known to all as Old Pat."

This is a great story for St. Patrick's Day! The Leprechaun's Gold is a remarkable book that has the potential to teach several lessons about greed, and egoism to kindness and forgiveness.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (January 24, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0064438783
• ISBN-13: 978-0064438780

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 4--Librarians looking for a fresh leprechaun tale for group sharing need search no longer. The narrative flows off the tongue, and Cole's feisty caricatures are easily seen from a distance. Individual readers will enjoy looking for the shamrocks hidden throughout the scenes and in the borders. Green is applied liberally; the color even emanates from a campfire, adding to the Irish flavor. The story centers around the King's contest to choose the best harpist in the land. Young Tom is sure he can beat out Old Pat. The lad goes as far as to break the poor old fellow's harp string on their journey to the event. It seems that all is lost until Pat stops to answer a leprechaun's cry for help. Edwards deftly creates enough tension to prevent the solution from being immediately predicted. In a classic case of humility and kindness defeating vanity and selfishness, all's well that ends well. Even as Tom receives his comeuppance, he finds "generosity growing in his heart." Guaranteed to warm the cockles.--Wendy Lukehart, Washington DC Public Library
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Booklist

PreS-Gr. 2. Kindhearted Old Pat and coldhearted Young Tom set off from their tiny village for a royal contest to determine the finest harpist in all of Ireland. As the two men sit by a campfire on the eve of the contest, Young Tom secretly breaks a string on Old Pat's harp in an attempt to ensure his own victory. Then, out of the darkness they hear a cry for help. Kindly Old Pat comes to the aid of what turns out to be a leprechaun while selfish Young Tom quickly flees the scene. At the contest the next day, both are appropriately repaid for their actions by the leprechaun and his buddies. Cole's imaginative illustrations are a good match for the story, displaying both realism and fantasy, and effectively conveying Old Pat's warmth and Young Tom's coldness through facial expression and body language. An appealing tale that need not be limited to St. Patrick's Day storytime. Lauren Peterson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

The Leprechaun's Gold

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