Mr. Wilmer
by Robert Lawson
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Mr. William Wilmer is 29 and works at the Safe, Sane and Colossal Insurance Company. Life is a dull routine with the only high point being a hello and a smile from red-haired Miss Sweeney, who works in the same department.
But things took a drastic change on his birthday, Saturday April 19th! While walking to work as usual, Mr. Wilmer stopped to give a Peppermint Patootie to the patrol man's horse. On this day the patrol man told him he wasn't allowed to due to a new rule. Surprised, Mr. Wilmer stood and looked. During this short time he heard a voice refer to the patrol man as a "big, bull-necked, ham-faced, overbearing brute!"
After work, Mr. Wilmer went to the zoo. A place he enjoyed. While there he confirmed that he could hear what show more animals said. He also discovered he could also talk to them! Needless to say this was life changing!
Written in 1945, this is enjoyable and a simple read. The rise and celebrity that Mr. Wilmer achieves and the outcome of his relationship with various characters is fun to read. It could also be read to children. And there are some illustrations in the book. Their style may look familiar, as the author did them himself and he was the illustrator for "Mr. Popper's Penguins." show less
But things took a drastic change on his birthday, Saturday April 19th! While walking to work as usual, Mr. Wilmer stopped to give a Peppermint Patootie to the patrol man's horse. On this day the patrol man told him he wasn't allowed to due to a new rule. Surprised, Mr. Wilmer stood and looked. During this short time he heard a voice refer to the patrol man as a "big, bull-necked, ham-faced, overbearing brute!"
After work, Mr. Wilmer went to the zoo. A place he enjoyed. While there he confirmed that he could hear what show more animals said. He also discovered he could also talk to them! Needless to say this was life changing!
Written in 1945, this is enjoyable and a simple read. The rise and celebrity that Mr. Wilmer achieves and the outcome of his relationship with various characters is fun to read. It could also be read to children. And there are some illustrations in the book. Their style may look familiar, as the author did them himself and he was the illustrator for "Mr. Popper's Penguins." show less
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Robert Lawson was born in 1892 in New York City. He studied art for three years under illustrator Howard Giles. His career as an illustrator began in 1914, when his illustration for a poem about the invasion of Belgium was published in Harper's Weekly. In 1922, he illustrated his first children's book, The Wonderful Adventures of Little Prince show more Toofat. Subsequently he illustrated dozens of children's books by other authors, including such well-known titles as The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf and Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater. He has illustrated as many as forty books by other authors, and another seventeen books that he himself was author of, including Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin By His Good Mouse Amos and Rabbit Hill. His work was widely admired, and he became the first, and so far only, person to be given both the Caldecott Medal (They Were Strong and Good, 1941) and the Newbery Medal (Rabbit Hill, 1945). Ben and Me earned a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1961. Lawson died in 1957 at his home in Westport, Connecticut, in a house that he referred to as Rabbit Hill, since it had been the setting for his book of the same name. He was 64. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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