Tallyho, Pinkerton!

I highly recommend any book written by or illustrated by Steven Kellogg, and the Pinkerton series is my favorite. The stories are zany fun and the detailed pictures are wonderful. I just wish I had a grandchild to go over them to point out each funny part in the pictures.

In this book the little girl for homework is supposed to go on a field trip and identify ten different birds and mammals. She takes along her mom, Pinkerton the Great Dane, and her cat (pets off leash, so what could go wrong?).

The first thing they see is a scarlet tanager. As a bird fan that has me wanting to go on a quest to see one, but I see they only migrate from South America through North Carolina on their way to places further north. And they migrate at night! show more Sigh, good to have things to work at.

Anyway, it just so happens as it often does that a hunting school lands their balloon with a group of hunters in the path of Pinkerton's group. The side of the basket on the balloon reads 'Dr Aleasha Kibble's Fox Hunting Academy. The hunters set up funny signs to keep people away, like one that reads 'leave at once. Go Away. BEAT IT. TAKE OFF!' Somehow Pinkerton and the scarlet tanager wind up in the balloon and it gets untethered.

Meanwhile the one lady is teaching the other 3 about the types of foxes and tells the girl 'We can't be bothered by stray animals. We're looking for the noble red fox. The dogs and hunters take off after Rose the cat, shoot up the tree the cat is in, hit the balloon, have the dog fall on them making them exclaim 'It's an invasion from outer space. Run for your lives!'

Fortunately everyone is unhurt, and the hunters go off to hunt and find a 'very rare striped fox.'

Great fun story, but you need to get your hands on the book to see the amazingly great pictures to go with the story. show less

I highly recommend any book written by or illustrated by Steven Kellogg, and the Pinkerton series is my favorite. The stories are zany fun and the detailed pictures are wonderful. I just wish I had a grandchild to go over them to point out each funny part in the pictures.

In this book the little girl for homework is supposed to go on a field trip and identify ten different birds and mammals. She takes along her mom, Pinkerton the Great Dane, and her cat (pets off leash, so what could go wrong?).

The first thing they see is a scarlet tanager. As a bird fan that has me wanting to go on a quest to see one, but I see they only migrate from South America through North Carolina on their way to places further north. And they migrate at night! show more Sigh, good to have things to work at.

Anyway, it just so happens as it often does that a hunting school lands their balloon with a group of hunters in the path of Pinkerton's group. The side of the basket on the balloon reads 'Dr Aleasha Kibble's Fox Hunting Academy. The hunters set up funny signs to keep people away, like one that reads 'leave at once. Go Away. BEAT IT. TAKE OFF!' Somehow Pinkerton and the scarlet tanager wind up in the balloon and it gets untethered.

Meanwhile the one lady is teaching the other 3 about the types of foxes and tells the girl 'We can't be bothered by stray animals. We're looking for the noble red fox. The dogs and hunters take off after Rose the cat, shoot up the tree the cat is in, hit the balloon, have the dog fall on them making them exclaim 'It's an invasion from outer space. Run for your lives!'

Fortunately everyone is unhurt, and the hunters go off to hunt and find a 'very rare striped fox.'

Great fun story, but you need to get your hands on the book to see the amazingly great pictures to go with the story. show less

Fine condition