Author: Jean Cassels
Summary: The story is told by the nephew of a famous painter, Dr. David Harleyson, as he and his father searches for his uncle through a collection of a dozen paintings painted in the last year. Most of the story is told through what the nephew finds on the back of each paintings which includes letters to and from whomever is painted on the canvas, tickets to shows, passports, telegrams and newspaper clippings. The nephew must find all twelve paintings and put them in order so that when the nephew visits his Uncle abroad the paintings will go to their rightful owners. The nephew find the last letter from his uncle that explains a marriage between Dr. David Harleyson and Miss Lill Pigg in which the nephew and his father is invited to attend.
Lesson: The author writes that the twelve paintings are based off of animals and stories from Grimm, Aesop and Mother Goose. For my lesson, I would have my class divided up in 12 groups with each group responsible for learning a tale from one of the paintings in this book, such as the Itsy Bitsy Spider and the Hare and the Tortoise. Each group would be responsible in reading and three different types of the same folk tale and then present the differences to the class with a brief summary of the folk tale.
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