The Magic Hat of Mortimer Wintergreen - Softcover

Levoy, Myron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595093531 ISBN 13: 9780595093533

Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

In 1890s South Dakota, Amy and Joshua escape from their mean Aunt Vootch. They plan to find their grandparents in New York, and manage to team up with a traveling magician, Mortimer Wintergreen, who is also New York bound. Mortimer owns a truly magic hat with a temperamental, mischievous mind of its own. Adventures abound as their way is blocked by outlaws, runaway hot-air balloons, geese, and their persistent Aunt Vootch. But the hat is always ready for action. Buoyant comedy. A fine addition to stories that truly entertain.Kirkus pointer review. A Junior Literary Guild Selection.

About this title

About the Author

Myron Levoy's Young Adult novels have received many honors including ALA Best books, U. S. National Book Award Finalist, and the national awards of Holland, Austria, and Germany for Alan and Naomi, which was made into a motion picture. His work frequently depicts outsiders-often with humor-searching for identity and connection, with growing insight into their own true selves.

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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Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595093531
• ISBN 13: 9780595093533
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224