As he pursues the man in the big red hat who dropped a copper coin, Tulio accumulates an unusual following, including a chicken that lays square eggs.
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 1. Tulio, an orphan, has only a wooden crate outside a busy marketplace to call his home, but his honesty has won him countless friends. One day, he retrieves a copper coin that a man with a red hat has dropped; intent on returning it, he travels by hay wagon, elephant, ship, and with an escort of royal guards, a marching band, dancing giants, and more until he finds the owner, only to discover that he has lost the coin. Determined to repay the man, Tulio bequeaths to him the whole entourage?except for a hen that lays square eggs?and goes off to open his own market stand. The theme of the importance of honesty resounds throughout the text, with many characters pronouncing an appropriate (if uninspiring) simile regarding Tulio's most obvious trait. While the simple story moves along pleasantly enough, there is nothing distinguished about its telling or its art. Full-page watercolor spreads are bright, colorful, and in keeping with the light mood of the text. A harmless piece of nonsense.?Nancy Menaldi-Scanlan, LaSalle Academy, Providence, RI
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Ages 4-7. When honest Tulio sees a man drop a copper coin in the bustling marketplace, he sets off to find him and return it. It turns out to be a very profitable journey, for Tulio's honesty and kindness prompt people he encounters along the way to give him things. When he finally catches up to the man who dropped the coin, Tulio has acquired a lamb's-wool coat, a circus elephant with a juggling monkey, a royal hat in the shape of the queen's royal poodle, and a chicken that lays square eggs. Colorful, crowd-filled scenes of the marketplace and countryside enhance the feeling of suspense and excitement created by Himmelman's effective use of the cumulative technique to tell the story. A lively adventure that also reinforces the old adage "Honesty is the best policy." Lauren Peterson
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John Himmelman is the author and illustrator of more than sixty books for children, including "Chickens to the Rescue". He lives in Connecticut with his family.
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