Trouble with Trolls

Critique of Genre: This is a cute example of fantasy because this girl, who is travelling to see her friend on the other side of the mountain, keeps encountering these trolls who are trying to steal her dog. She is smarter than the trolls, however and talks them out of taking her dog one my one

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until she is free to “fly” away on her skis.
Media: Acrylics

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Treva's trouble with trolls begins when she climbs Mount Baldy with her dog Tuffi. The trolls who live there long for a dog, and they try to kidnap him. But Treva is brave and quick-thinking. She outwits one troll after another until she reaches the very top of the mountain, where five trolls are

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waiting--and they want her dog!

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When Treva and her dog, Tuffi climb up the mountain, Tuffi is kidnapped by a troll. To get Tuffi back, Treva has to trick the trolls by giving up everything else she has. To get back all her stuff, Treva has another idea to trick the trolls.

Treva and her dog Tuffi take a trip over Mt. Baldy to visit her cousin and they meet 5 trolls on their journey. The trolls try to steal Tuffi, but Treva outsmarts them every time. She and Tuffi make it away safely and the trolls turn to white cotton grass.

This story was very fun. I liked how it reminded me of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but with a polar bear and some trolls. Also, with a Christmas twist. The illustration was very unique too. It was like I was reading a book within a book.

An interesting Christmastime story about a boy and his polar bear traveling through the mountains. They stop at a house where a girl is having trouble keeping trolls away from her Christmas dinner.

Brave little girl confronts and outwits trolls. Nice reading for winter and adventure.

The brave and quick-thinking heroine of this story evades a set of trickster trolls who try to steal her dog, but the real treasure of this story is the illustrations. Highly detailed and colorful, the pictures that accompany this text help position children to understand the content of the book

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and even foreshadow coming events in the margins of the page. The setting of this book, too, is highly engaging and imaginative, and takes place in a variety of places, including an underground cave and on snow-covered mountains.

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Treva seems to be having trouble with trolls. Treva takes her dog, Tuffi, to climb Mount Baldy, but along the way trolls keep bothering them. Each troll they cross paths with tries to take Tuffi, and Treva has to outsmart the trolls. Treva outsmarts the trolls by giving them other things such as

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her mittens, hat, sweater, and boots so that they dont want to take Tuffi anymore. However, at the top of the mountain Treva and Tuffi run into five trolls at once. Treva is able to get all of her things back, ad ski away with Tuffi by once again outsmarting the trolls.

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Poor Treva just want to take her dog Tuffi to the other side of Mt. Baldy to visit her cousin, but the trolls that she encounters along the way are really becoming a problem. Little Treva has to outwit them to keep her dog safe, and in the end she gets the last laugh on the greedy trolls.

Treva travels up a mountain to visit a cousin and the trolls try to take her dog. She manages to outwit the trolls. The main theme of the book is that you can easily be creative with what you have. I like this book, as it is a creative fun approach outwitting "evil".

I liked this book because of the

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illustrations. The trolls are very detailed and almost like humans. I also feel like I can almost touch and feel the fur of Treva's dog. I could also feel the itchiness of the sweater too.

I also like Treva. She is very creative under peer pressure and still manages to keep her cool and get what she wants. She is a strong female character as well, something not as common in Jan Brett's books.

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This is a book that made me smile. On her trek over the mountain to visit her cousin, young Treva had trouble with trolls. The nasty critters have dreamed of owning a dog. When they spied Treva and her dog, they just had to have her animal.

Devising sneaky ways to grab Tuffi, increasingly Treva is

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successful in getting back her dog. When this game persists, cleaver Treva intelligently develops a plan to fool these snarky, snaggly trolls.

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A funny story about a young girl on an adventure. It involves trolls and a lot of snow. The story is okay, but not my favorite. It has a lot of fantasy elements and creativity. Jan Brett's illustrations make the book better and interesting. She goes into great detail.

This book would be a folklore because it is a myth and a legend about the trolls.

This book is one of the rare stories Brett wrote about a human character. This is a trickster tale where the main character Treva tricks trolls that live on the mountain she is crossing to meet her friend. The illustrations are beautiful as always. In this book, the border illustrations are a

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little different than in other books. I like that the illustrations show what it looks like under the mountain in the troll’s lair, but there are not really any plot continuations in the borders. I like that this story included more fantasy elements with the trolls. This story is a little different than other ones Brett has written, but there is still a little bit of comedy and a message at the end.

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This story is interestingly told. Every book talks about how not so smart trolls are, and this story is the icing on the cake. I think a teacher could use this book to keep students guessing about what is going to happen next. The reading level is 3.8.

Treva's trouble with trolls begins when she climbs Mount Baldy with her dog Tuffi. The trolls who live there long for a dog, and they try to kidnap him. But Treva is brave and quick-thinking. She outwits one troll after another until she reaches the very top of the mountain, where five trolls are

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waiting--and they want her dog!

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Great for descriptive and action words like scurried, squealed, growled, furry, big, beautiful. Really good

When Treva decides to visit her cousin on the other side of Mount Baldy, her trip over the mountain leads her directly into some trouble with the local trolls, who have been wanting a dog just like her beloved Tuffi. As one after another of them seize her canine companion, only to be tricked into

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giving him up for another of Treva's possessions, the young girl slowly makes her way to the mountaintop. Once there however, she discovers that she must confront all of the trolls at once. Does she have the cunning to outwit them one last time...?

The first of two picture-books featuring Treva and he adventures with the trolls - the second in Christmas Trolls - Trouble with Trolls pairs an entertaining tale about a clever little girl who beats the odds and saves her dog, with beautifully detailed illustrations. As always with Jan Brett, I appreciated her animals a little more than her human figures, and found her detailed side (or lower) panels - here depicting the underground troll cavern, where a curious hedgehog is exploring - a decided bonus. I always appreciate the fact that there is more afoot, in the artwork of a Jan Brett title, than can be gleaned from text alone, and that the additional narratives found in the artwork always work so well in tandem with the main one put forward by the text. All in all, this was a sweet little wintry confection of a picture-book - more than enough to convince me to seek out the subsequent title about these characters.

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Brave little girl confronts and outwits trolls. Nice reading for winter and adventure.