The three mouths of little Tom Drum

By Nancy Willard

Subjects: Boys, Imagination in children, Boys, fiction, Food, Birthdays, fiction, Birthdays, Food habits, fiction, Food habits, Pictorial works, Food, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Pies, Juvenile fiction, Imagination, fiction

Description: "Little Tom Drum loves strawberry pie so much that he creeps down to the kitchen at night to get one more slice of that sweet, flaky goodness resting on the windowsill in the moonlight ... pie his mother made for tomorrow's birthday party. If only he had thought twice! Bearing the marks of his greediness, Tom Drum resigns himself to a reclusive life, but soon gains fame as a child inventor. Can his imagination and ingenuity lead to his own reinvention"--