The Magic Hat of Mortimer Wintergreen - Hardcover

Levoy, Myron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060238410 ISBN 13: 9780060238414

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1988

Synopsis

In 1893, thirteen-year-old Joshua and his eleven-year-old sister, Amy, travel from South Dakota to New York City with the help of the mysterious Mortimer Wintergreen and his unpredictable magic hat.

About this title

About the Author:

Myron Levoy is the author of The Witch of Fourth Street, and Other Stories, among many other books for children. Alan and Naomi was nominated for the American Book Award for Children's Literature and was an honor book for both the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the Jane Addams Children's Book Awards. It also won the Silver Pencil Award in the Netherlands.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 5-7 Fantasy somewhat in the vein of Bill Brittain, especially his Dr. Dredd's Wagon of Wonders (Harper, 1987), but Levoy's account of a W. C. Fields-like scamp, an incredible magi cal hat, and a chase from South Dakota to New York City lacks Brittain's sure touch. Pursued by relentless Aunt Vootch, whom Joshua describes to Amy as ``tricky mean, which is the worst mean of all,'' the two orphaned children escape their aunt and team up with Wintergreen and his remarkable chapeau. By wagon and balloon Win tergreen helps the kids get to New York and find their grandparents. Along the way the hat produces incredible gifts often humorous. Wintergreen often speaks in strained comparisons that lack the deft sparkle of Levoy's teenage jargon in Alan and Naomi (1977) and Pictures of Adam (1986, both Harper). Still, a good readif only to make ac quaintance with Aunt Vootch and with Wintergreen's unpredictable, magical hat. George Gleason, Department of English, Southwest Missouri State Uni versity, Springfield
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0060238410
• ISBN 13: 9780060238414
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 211