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A man who finds a piece of luck dreams up the perfect hiding place for his treasure but soon discovers that too much good fortune is more than one man can handle.
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A clever fable well suited to a storyteller's magic. Fate has smiled on one man who comes across a nugget of all the luck in the town. Unwilling to share it with his neighbors, he hoards his good fortune, hauling it around in a wheelbarrow and finally deciding to hide it atop a nearby mountain so no one can steal it. Greed proves his undoing when the cart collapses and his huge chunk of luck falls from the peak. It crashes to the ground, shattering into a million pieces of luck to be shared by the many townsfolk and leaving the man sadly out of luck. Henwood makes use of curved horizons to create an interesting crest of space, and his landscapes have a European flavor. His design is uncluttered and the illustrations, with their simple, flat colors in resist, woodcut-like paintings, provide good accompaniment to the text. This is a simple tale with a sly pun or two and a shrewd moral. --Virginia E. Jeschelnig, Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library, Willowick, OHHINDLEY, Judy.
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0374359253
- ISBN 13 9780374359256
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages26
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