The Tale of Christine Pristine

Christine Pristine is such a perfectionist about matters of appearance and deportment that she wears a ring with a mirror in it for detecting the presence of stray bogeys. Her fastidiousness wins her the title of Queen Clean of Speen. but at the celebratory banquet she commits a breach of etiquette that unleashes an annihilating torrent of social pigswill. Or so says Annie's grannie, the narrator of this rambling, anarchic, deadpan, cautionary tale, as she tries to persuade her granddaughter to keep her elbows off the table. A splendid, shaggy farce that should appeal to the mucky pup in many children of junior age.