The Big Cheese
by Eve Bunting
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A cumulative tale in which the purchase of an enormous cheese results in a greatly enriched life for two lonely old women.Tags
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Miss Tillie and Miss Bee are an odd pair that decide to buy a huge block of cheese that was a bargain. They find they need a cat to guard the cheese from mice, then they need some milk to feed the cat so they buy a cow and so on and so on. Kids will enjoy the humor in the book, but may need all of the idioms explained to them. Good for practicing inferential reading.
Miss Tillie and Miss Bee live alone at he top of a hill. Miss Bee craves more companionship and one day buys a huge wheel of cheese. Along with the cheese comes mice and if you've got mice you need a cat and then you need a cow. The cheese brings these 2 friends the companionship they have wanted all along. Here is a great website about Eve Bunting: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=2210
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Eve Bunting was born in 1928 in Maghera, Ireland, as Anne Evelyn Bunting. She graduated from Northern Ireland's Methodist College in Belfast in 1945 and then studied at Belfast's Queen's College. She emigrated with her family in 1958 to California, and became a naturalized citizen in 1969. That same year, she began her writing career, and in 1972, show more her first book, "The Two Giants" was published. In 1976, "One More Flight" won the Golden Kite Medal, and in 1978, "Ghost of Summer" won the Southern California's Council on Literature for Children and Young People's Award for fiction. "Smokey Night" won the American Library Association's Randolph Caldecott Medal in 1995 and "Winter's Coming" was voted one of the 10 Best Books of 1977 by the New York Times. Bunting is involved in many writer's organizations such as P.E.N., The Authors Guild, the California Writer's Guild and the Society of Children's Book Writers. She has published stories in both Cricket, and Jack and Jill Magazines, and has written over 150 books in various genres such as children's books, contemporary, historic and realistic fiction, poetry, nonfiction and humor. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Big Cheese
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .B91527 .B — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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