Whitefish Will Rides Again! - Softcover

Yorinks, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062059211 ISBN 13: 9780062059215

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1996

Synopsis

With no rustlers left, the townsfolk lay off Sheriff Whitefish Will, but when outlaws show up, Will returns to prove that a harmonica tooting is mightier than a pistol shooting

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur Yorinks is the author of more than two dozen books for children, including the Caldecott Medal winner Hey, Al, illustrated by Richard Egielski. He has also collaborated with Maurice Sendak on several titles, most recently mommy? The founder and artistic director of the yorinks theater group, he lives in New York City.

Mort Druckers legendary features and covers for Mad have been a mainstay of that magazine for over forty years. His only children's books are Whitefish Will Rides Again!, and Tomatoes from Mars, both in collaboration with Arthur Yorinks. Mr. Drucker lives in Woodbury, NY.

From Publishers Weekly:

Yorinks, author of the Caldecott-winning Hey, Al , and veteran Mad magazine illustrator Drucker (who here makes his children's book debut) are just the right fellas to relate this rollicking tale set in the Wild West. The book opens with three mighty tall (the type is 214 high) words: "WHO'S WHITEFISH WILL?" The answer, set in ordinary-size type: "Why, he's just about the best danged sheriff that ever lived. That's who." That pretty much sets the tone for the folksy-tongued narrator's tale, which uncoils as smoothly as a rodeo rope. Sure-firing Will has proven "so good at rassling rustlers that soon there were no more rustlers left to rassle." So he is put out to pasture, left to raise roosters and blow on his harmonica (his "stinkweed serenades" sound "worse than a bobcat caught on a cactus"). But what happens when bad Bart (who was "so mean rattlesnakes would line up and try to kiss his feet") and his gang ride into town and threaten to burn the place down? The townsfolk go fetch Will, of course, who runs the varmint out of town--by playing his harmonica (" ' Ay yi yi yi yi! ' Bart cried, 'Have mercy!' "). And the West is safe for honest (earplug-wearing) folks once again. Drucker's droll, hyperbolic art--featuring a passel of comical cowboy caricatures--is smack on target. No question 'bout it: kids gonna love this one. All ages.
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0062059211
• ISBN 13: 9780062059215
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Drucker Mort