Fishin' with Grandma Matchie [Import] [Hardcover]

Steven Erikson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 90 pages
• Publisher: PS Publishing (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904619134
• ISBN-13: 978-1904619130
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Wild, Wacky, and Hugely Imaginative Children's Tale, March 5, 2009

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G. Guthrie "fiction book collector" (columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FISHIN' WITH GRANDMA MATCHIE (Hardcover)

This is a children story told from the view of a young boy with a vast imagination. It tells three connected stories, that are three adventures with the boy and his grandmother, who is some supernatural grandma who lives at the bottom of the lake where the boy's family vacations for the summer.

This is the kind of children's story that is similar in vein to Joe Lansdale's Something Lumber This Way Comes, where if I was a kid I would love this book, because it is just so wacky and out there. For example the young boy is taught that the Sierra Nevada Mountains were created by giant buffalo droppings. The kid gets scolded throughout the story when it flashed back to his school, where after the summer the principal and teacher can't believe his imaginative tales.

As stated there are three adventures where Grandma Matchie is fighting to save the sister, herself from love, and finally with Satan himself. It ends in a visual display of fun and imagination. This could easily be made into a great animated film for kids. And it was enjoyable, not great, but a fun read.