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[Read by Kirby Heyborne]
In 1890's 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 the persistent Aunt Vootch--but the hat is always ready for action. (*A film adaptation produced by and starring Johnny Depp is currently in development.)
[Read by Kirby Heyborne]
In 1890's 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 the persistent Aunt Vootch--but the hat is always ready for action. (*A film adaptation produced by and starring Johnny Depp is currently in development.)
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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.
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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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- PublisherBlackstone Audio, Inc.
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1504654617
- ISBN 13 9781504654616
- BindingAudio CD
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