Welcome to Nutfolk Wood population 52 In the country town of Plunkit, where Willa and her mom start anew after her parents'' divorce, Willa catches sight of a strange sparkle by the creek and in the old woods. Her older-than-old neighbor, Hazel Wicket, has an amusing story about these surroundings and an imagined family of tiny people that inhabit a tree stump.
Welcome to Nutfolk Wood population 52 In the country town of Plunkit, where Willa and her mom start anew after her parents divorce, Willa catches sight of a strange sparkle by the creek and in the old woods. Her older-than-old neighbor, Hazel Wicket, has an amusing story about these surroundings and an imagined family of tiny people that inhabit a tree stump. Willa knows theres no such thing as fairies, but when she spots more and more oddities around her, she can t stop an itchy feeling that theres some certainty to Hazel s curious tales of the Nutfolk. Barb Bentler Ullmans fine first novel shares a special magic -- behind which hard truth and hidden wisdom await discovery.
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