LEPRECHAUNS NEVER LIE

by Lorna Balian ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, 1980

Told with an Irish lilt, this is something of a set-up, and less imaginative than picturesquely patterned. Lazy Ninny Nanny answers her Gram's plaints (""Oh, woe is me! 'Tis starving we are"") by actually, accidentally, catching a leprechaun--who claims to have a treasure hidden first under the roof-thatch, then under a pile of branches, then ""under"" the river, then in the potato patch. Ninny Nanny's furious searching in one after another place--because, Gram insists, ""leprechauns never lie""--does provide the two with a newly-watertight roof, a supply of firewood, a full-up rain barrel (the result of trying to empty the river), and a stock of potatoes; but the treasure doesn't come to light until Ninny Nanny, in disgust, has loosed the leprechaun and he digs it up, gleefully, under the last potato plant. The pictures have a certain mossy quaintness without any particular sparkle--and much the same is true of the story.

Pub Date: Aug. 1, 1980

ISBN: 1932065377

Page Count: -

Publisher: Abingdon

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1980

Categories: CHILDREN'S