On Tumbledown Hill

Résumé du livre

That's the first line of Tim Wynne-Jones' wildly whimsical new picture book. In it, a cautious but determined painter withstands the threats of a mob of monsters in order to pursue his art. That's the content of the story. But the means of arriving at the climax of this rollicking adventure is what will entice young readers, The text is based on a challenge posed by the narrator to himself: to write a story in which each sentence has one less word than the one proceeding it -- twenty-six to one.