Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... Me and My Little Brain (1971)di John D. Fitzgerald
Favorite Childhood Books (760) 1970s (556) Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. With more J.D. and less T.D., this is my favorite so far. Got the box set at a thrift store, reading all so I'll know what all the high praise is about. All I can say is, thank goodness none of my three boys were quite as wicked as T.D. Thank goodness he does do at least one nice thing per book. (Copying this review to the others as I finish them; will add notes if nec.) This is the third book in the "Great Brain" series. Here the narrator, JD, the Great Brain's younger brother, here he takes center stage. We also get little Frankie, the adopted orphan, the "kickin'est, fightin'est, bitin'est kid I ever seen", in the words of Cal Roberts, scoundrel and murderer. The real story here is how JD outwits Cal to save Frankie's life. I'm having a blast reading these books again, some twenty five years or so after I read them for the first time. For what it's worth, this is the version with Mercer Meyer's illustrations. The Meyer version is the ONLY way to go, IMHO. John's older brother, Tom the Great Brain, has gone off to boarding school, leaving him to wonder if he can use his little brain to work the kinds of scams Tom did to make himself rich. He tries to do things the way his brother would, but it doesn't seem to work out the same way for him, teaching him that he's not the kind of guy who can work a scam. When he decides to be himself, the rewards follow. The book is set in the 1890's in rural Utah, making it a fascinating look into the lives of children in that era. The author has loosely based these adventures on his own childhood, lending it richness and making it very believable and engrossing. Smaller children may be frightened or traumatized by the kinds of adventures these kids took as the regular way of life, but older children will be able to engage in discussions about how things have changed for youngsters since then. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieThe Great Brain (3) Premi e riconoscimenti
In the absence of his older brother, the Great Brain, J.D. finds that his own little brain can accomplish feats on a somewhat lesser scale. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.9Literature English English fiction Modern PeriodClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |
The Mercer Mayer illustrations still bring me joy. ( )