Red Ranger Came Calling: A Guaranteed True Christmas Story - Hardcover

Berkeley Breathed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316108812 ISBN 13: 9780316108812

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1994

Synopsis

In a holiday tale by the creator of the cartoon Bloom County, a boy petitions an old hermit living on an island in the Pacific Northwest for a bicycle named after the hero of his favorite movie serial.

About this title

About the Author:

Berkeley Breathed is a cartoonist, novelist, director, and screenwriter, best known for the popular comic strip "Bloom County." He has written and/or illustrated many books for young readers, including Red Ranger Came Calling, The Last Basselope, Goodnight Opus, and A Wish for Wings That Worked.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Breathed, creator of the popular ``Bloom County'' comic strip, writes of the transformation of a sour-faced little boy (Breathed's father) during the Depression. In 1939, Red Breathed is a nine-year-old cynic who has been disappointed too many times by the adults in his life to take them seriously. When he meets a retired, aging Santa Claus, he has no expectations. But Santa gains Red's conditional trust with a small miracle only to fail him in a big one--getting Red an Official Buck Tweed Two-Speed Crime-Stopper Star- Hopper bicycle. When he doesn't find his bicycle on Christmas morning, Red goes to bawl out Santa but finds that he can't disappoint the old man by telling him the truth. He ends up comforting him instead, and when Red goes home he discovers that Santa had come through for him--in a way- -after all. Breathed's drawings are at their comic best. If the final plot twist hinges on a bad pun, all is forgiven after the last surprise picture. (Picture book. All ages) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0316108812
• ISBN 13: 9780316108812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 37