[.ca] Peg & the Yeti (ISBN 0002005387)

Amazon.ca:
If you've already plumbed the depths of the sea by the time you're eight, there's nothing left but to climb the world's tallest mountain. So figures Peg, the feisty heroine of a delightfully outrageous tall tale by award-winning children's fantasy writer Kenneth Oppel (author of Airborn and the Silverwing trilogy). A follow-up to Oppel's equally whimsical picture book Peg and the Whale, Peg and the Yeti describes the incredible journey of this pint-sized adventurer to the top of Mount Everest and back. With typical bravado, Peg brings nothing in the way of climbing gear except a fishing rod, her wool mitts, and a supply of pork scruncheons. The scruncheons come in handy, however, when she meets the dreaded Yeti, for it turns out that the Yeti's legendary bad temper can be traced directly to a shortage of delicious snack food. Together, Peg and her abominable snow companion scale Everest's peak and drift comfortably down the mountainside in a hot air balloon created from Peg's tent and a hollowed-out block of ice. Her parents, waiting below on their fishing boat, are amusingly blasé about the woolly new addition to the family. "'I see you've brought the Yeti with you,' her mother said. 'He likes the scruncheons,' Peg explained. 'Very good then,' said her father." Featuring the Plasticine art of celebrated Canadian illustrator Barbara Reid, Peg and the Yeti is a fun-filled romp for four- to six-year-olds in the can-do spirit of Pippi Longstocking. --Lisa Alward

Enjoyable:
My children aged 3 and 5 really enjoyed this book and we read it over and over! Great illustrations, and really fun characters.