McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales
by Sid Fleischman
The Adventures of McBroom (Collections and Selections — Omnibus 1-3)
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Three humorous adventures on McBroom's wonderful one-acre prairie farm.Tags
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nessreader These are both collections of read-aloud short stories - the McBroom ones are more hyper (and funnier in my opinion.) The Plank ones are gentle and peaceful and sweet - never was a pirate more mild-natured! - but either would work at bedtime. Both very American.
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Blurb is awkward. This is an omnibus of stories published in the 60s. They're still entertaining, but some references will confuse modern children. Especially grasshoppers spitting 'tobacco juice' into a cuspidor. I do appreciate the science bit about nitrogen being good for soil. As any teller of whoppers know, mixing in a few facts with the 'fibs' strings the listener/reader along for longer and makes the punchline even funnier.
What a wonderful young chapter book--billed as grades 2-5 or ages 7-10. However, I think the humor would be lost on most children that age. The story begins when Josh McBroom learns that the 80 acres of Iowa farmland he's purchased are all stacked up on top of each other beginning at the bottom of a muddy pond. Although his neighbor, the wind, and the grasshoppers have it in the McBroom property, Josh and his 11 children and wife use ingenious ways to thwart them! Really fun! 61 pages
McBroom Tells the truth: The first entry in the classic children's book series, McBroom Tells the Truth introduces us to the McBroom family and the origin of their amazing farm with soil so rich that it will grow anything, and I mean ANYTHING. As with every McBroom book, this one is full of amusing exaggerations and tall tales sworn to be the truth, with the humorous confession of a minor fib at the end of the tale.
McBroom and the Big Wind: In this McBroom tall tale, Josh McBroom tells yet another story about life on the farm, this time detailing their experiences with prairie winds so strong that they broke his leg. Includes a jump-rope skipping bear and migrating rabbits.
McBroom and the Big Wind: In this McBroom tall tale, Josh McBroom tells yet another story about life on the farm, this time detailing their experiences with prairie winds so strong that they broke his leg. Includes a jump-rope skipping bear and migrating rabbits.
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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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- 1992
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- There has been so much tomfool nonsense told about McBroom's wonderful one-acre farm that I had better set matters straight.
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