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A farmer and his family save their farm by using a popcorn machine, frozen sunlight, and jumping beans.Tags
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This is a book I've had since I was a kid, and I have a soft spot for the tall tales Josh McBroom spins about his amazing one-acre farm and the things he can grow there -- popcorn, jumping beans, and tomatoes, this time -- all in under an hour. This go-round he also has to deal with a shady neighbor who covets his farm and tries to trick him into losing ownership.
Funny and silly.
Funny and silly.
LFL find. Cute enough. If you like McBroom's tall tales, or other humor akin, you might get a kick out of it. Btw, compared to other McBroom books, this is one relatively longer story, with a whole arc. But I only like this sort of silliness in very small doses, so I can't rate.
A farmer and his family save their amazing one-acre farm by using a Popcornmobile, frozen sunlight, and lightning bugs.
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Sid Fleischman was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 16, 1920 but grew up in San Diego, California. He loved all things magical and toured professionally as a magician until the beginning of World War II. During the war, he served in the U.S. Naval Reserve, and afterwards, he graduated from San Diego State University in 1949. After graduation, show more he worked as a reporter with the San Diego Daily Journal. After the paper folded in 1950, he started writing fiction. He tried his hand at children's books because his own children often wondered what their father did. To show them how he created stories, he wrote them a book. He wrote more than 50 fiction and nonfiction works during his lifetime including The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life; Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini; The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West; The Thirteenth Floor; and The Ghost in the Noonday Sun. His book, The Whipping Boy, won the Newberry Award in 1987. He is the father of Newbery Medal winning writer and poet Paul Fleischman; they are the only father and son to receive Newbery awards. He also wrote screenplays including Lafayette Escadrille, Blood Alley, and The Whipping Boy. He died from cancer on March 17, 2010 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- McBroom Tells a Lie
- Original publication date
- 1976
- People/Characters
- Josh McBroom; Melissa McBroom (wife of Josh McBroom); Will McBroom (son of Josh McBroom); Jill McBroom (daughter of Josh McBroom); Hester McBroom (daughter of Josh McBroom); Chester McBroom (son of Josh McBroom) (show all 14); Peter McBroom (son of Josh McBroom); Polly McBroom (daughter of Josh McBroom); Tim McBroom (son of Josh McBroom); Tom McBroom (son of Josh McBroom); Mary McBroom (daughter of Josh McBroom); Larry McBroom (son of Josh McBroom); Clarinda McBroom (daughter of Josh McBroom); Heck Jones (neighbor of Josh McBroom)
- Dedication
- For Andy Carpenter
- First words
- It's true – I did tell a lie once.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Now it's true – I did tell a lie once. That cow of his didn't really freeze to death in all that popcorn. But she did catch a terrible cold.
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Children's Books, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .F5992 .M — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.92)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
- 8
