Cold Feet

After stealing a dead man's boots, a poor wandering bagpiper uses them to play a trick on an unfriendly farmer but then finds the trick turned back on him. By the creators of The Dancing Skeleton.

Cynthia DeFelice is the award--winning author of many young--adult and middle--reader novels, as well as the picture books Casey in the Bath, illustrated by Chris Demarest, and Willy's Silly Grandma, illustrated by Shelley Jackson. She lives with her family near acres of snowy woods in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. Robert Andrew Parker last worked with Cynthia DeFelice on The Dancing Skeleton, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. He is the illustrator of many favorite books for children, including Grandfather Tang's Story, by Ann Trompert, A Great Miracle Happened There, by Karla Kuskin, and The Hatmaker's Sign, retold by Candace Fleming. For adults, he recently provided etchings for a new translation of Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma for the Modern Library. Mr. Parker lives in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains.