Attila the Pun: A Magic Moscow Story [Hardcover]

Daniel Manus Pinkwater (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 69 pages
• Publisher: Demco Media (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0606072136
• ISBN-13: 978-0606072137
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,854,001 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Daniel Pinkwater lives with his wife, the illustrator and novelist Jill Pinkwater, and several dogs and cats in a very old farmhouse in New York's Hudson River Valley.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great follow-up of Pinkwater's classic 'The Magic Moscow'!, February 15, 2002

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Zagnorch (Terra, Sol System) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Attila the Pun: A Magic Moscow story (Hardcover)

Having been a fan of the original `Magic Moscow' tome as a kid, I eventually started picking up a few of Daniel Pinkwater's other efforts as well. One of my faves was the follow-up Magic Moscow story, `Attila the Pun'. I loved the playful use of words, the weird culinary combinations, and the wonderful sense of fun that this new story shared with its predecessor. Throw in a goofy supernatural element- a wisecracking, really-bad-joke-reciting Hun ghost summoned from the great beyond- and you've got... well, something pretty weird and wonderful.

Even though this particular book is twenty years old, I still believe it'll make for good reading for today's elementary school-age child. Fair warning, though: this book has a few things that'd be considered un-PC nowadays, including smoking (the `Hungarian Boy Scout Lunch' chapter). It also features a bit of magical conjurings & sorcery, which has gotten the more contemporary `Harry Potter' books emboiled in controversy with some folks. But, aside from these things, I think the book will be quite an enjoyable read for the kiddies-and for adults who like a nice, light, whimsical adventure every now and then.

`Late!