Here Comes McBroom!: Three More Tall Tales [Hardcover]

Sid Fleischman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999 | ISBN-10: 0844670294 | ISBN-13: 978-0844670294

The corn grows so fast on Josh McBroom's farm that the red barns turn blue with the cold and words freeze in the air, in the hilarious adventures and wistful illustrations in the companion anthology to McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm.

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Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0844670294
• ISBN-13: 978-0844670294
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,688,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Since his autobiography, The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life, was published in 1996, Sid Fleischman has been stealing the spotlight with his exuberant brand of nonfiction. Sir Charlie: Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World is Fleischman's fourth true tale, following the widely acclaimed The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West and the best-selling Escape! The Story of The Great Houdini.
Fleischman's books have been made into films, performed as plays, and translated into nineteen languages. The author was awarded the Newbery Medal for The Whipping Boy.
Sid Fleischman lives in Santa Monica, California.

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This review is from: Here Comes McBroom!: Three More Tall Tales (Library Binding)

Imagine a one-acre farm so rich the soil "ought to be kept in a bank." Be warned that crops grow so fast you'd better jump out of the way when you plant corn. The stalks will shoot up and skin your nose.

That's the world of Josh McBroom, the lovable teller of tall tales, who is now celebrating a quarter century of keeping his readers in stiches. Here, collected in an anniversary edition are 3 of the famous tales with Quentin Blake's spirited illustrations.

A man who would rather sit on a porcupine than stretch the truth, Mc Broom tells about the winter of the Big Freeze when red barns turn blue with the cold. Even words freeze stiff in mid-air. And then a ghost comes knocking...

And there arrives a summer so dry the McBroom cow gives powdered milk. Another time a tornado carries off his wonderful topsoil, and he tracks it down with a compass cat, whose tail always points north.