The Teapot's Tale by Joanna Brode With Illustrations by Claudia Hopf

The little teapot in this story is real. It was made in NYC by one of the Crolius family of potters, and centuries later was purchased at the Brimfield, Massachusetts Flea Market by a New Hampshire couple. 

The story of what happened between the teapot's creation in NYC and its purchase at the Brimfield Market is fictional but plausible. Readers are invited to imagine their own story of what might of befallen the little teapot in those mysterious lost years.