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Mose the Fireman [Hardcover]

Eric Metaxas (Author), Everett Peck (Author, Illustrator)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)


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Book Description

September 1996
Michael Keaton narrates the action-packed adventures and exploits of legendary fireman Mose and the Lady Washington fire engine, in a tale highlighted with music by Walter Becker and John Beasley.


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Listening to the story of brawny, brave Mose, the legendary fireman from New York City, is a a treat. Michael Keaton narrates this story of another Gotham City savior. He gives Mose a broad New York accent and enlivens the tale with contemporary slang despite the story's nineteenth-century setting. Mose is a Bunyanesque figure and will be a favorite of young listeners who love those fire trucks! The jazz score by former Steely Dan founder Walter Becker is a great addition. Either part of the set, book or cassette, can stand alone. R.F.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Juv); Har/Cas edition (September 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0689802277
  • ISBN-13: 978-0689802270
  • Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,038,651 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Eric Metaxas is the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery. His writing was first published in Atlantic Monthly, and has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Regeneration Quarterly, Christianity Today, National Review Online, Beliefnet and First Things. The American Booksellers Association chose Metaxas's The Birthday ABC as a 1995 Pick of the List and Amazon.com honored his Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving with their Number One Bestseller Award for Thanksgiving 1999. He has been featured numerous times on CNN, The Fox News Channel and other television networks, and has been a guest on NPR. He is the founder and host of Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life, a monthly event of entertaining and thought provoking discussions that feature such speakers as Sir John Polkinghorne, Dr. Armand Nicholi, Os Guinness, Lauren F. Winner and Peter Kreeft. Metaxas serves on the vestry of Calvary/St. George's Episcopal Church, and lives in Manhattan, New York, with his wife and daughter.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Such a fun book, November 27, 2011
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We love this book. We first got it from the library with the accompanying aduio recording and fell in love with it. The illustrations are great, the story is not boring or overly simplified and Mose is quite the humble hero.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Funny Tall Tale for New York Lovers, October 7, 2011
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Eric Metaxas proves his artistic versatility with this sprightly, irreverent rendition of the popular folk tale Mose the Fireman. A codgerly narrator mixes modern slang into his tale of Mose, the larger-than-life hero who manages to propose to his sweetheart Lize while saving the city from fire, draining the Hudson River, and singlehandedly digging the tunnel that becomes the subway system. Unlike other versions, this story doesn't end with tragedy, but with a happy wedding scene. The text rolls along jauntily, and Everett Peck's amusing illustrations evoke just the right mood.

The book itself doesn't need improvement, but there is a DVD and CD narration available through Rabbit Ears Entertainment, and there's more where that came from -- it's part of a larger collection of American folktales. Rabbit Ears Treasury of Tall Tales: Volume Two: Mose the Fireman, Stormalong
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