Linda Shute

This book is about Tom Fitzpatrick who found a leprechaun in a field, grabbed him and wouldn't let him go until he showed Tom where his buried treasure was. The leprechaun leads Tom to a field and tells him he'll need a spade to dig up the treasure. Tom ties something around the tree that it is buried under and makes the leprechaun promise not to take it off so Tom will know what tree it's under after he gets his spade. The only problem is that when Tom comes back, the leprechaun had tied the same ribbon around every tree in the field. From that day on, Tom never went anywhere without his spade just in case.
Critique (Genre): This is a good example of a fairytale because it is based off of a generation telling another generation this story and that generation telling another generation and so on down the line until today. This book is a short story with a folkloric fantasy character that is normally in a fairytale.
Media: Watercolor… (meer)