Overview of The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine Book

In a diary entry from a Paris hotel, Mark Twain describes a typical evening, sat with young daughters Susy and Clara, both demanding a story. Clara chose a picture from a magazine as a story prompt and said, "We're ready, papa." Over the next few nights Mark Twain wove for them the fairy tale of Johnny, a poor boy in possession of magical seeds. But there the story ended, until over a century later in 2011, a scholar at the UC Berkeley took interest in Twain's notes from those bedtime storytelling sessions. Twain had written up some fragmentary details from the story: "Widow, dying, gives seeds to Johnny", his notes begin, finishing abruptly five pages later with the cliffhanger "It is guarded by 2 mighty dragons who never sleep." But that is all that is known of the tale - five pages of incomplete, fragmentary notes, filed away and lost to time. Until now. Enter Philip Stead and Erin Stead, Caldecott Medal winning author and illustrator of A Sick Day for Amos McGee. With only Twain's piecemeal notes and a story arc that stops half-way as his guide, Philip Stead has created a tale that imagines what might have been if Twain had fully realized this work. Framed as a story "told to me by my friend, Mr. Mark Twain," and occasionally interrupted by an imagined meeting over tea between Stead and an impatient Twain, Stead picks up the story of poor Johnny and his quest to save a stolen prince with the help of a cast of talking animals. Illuminated by Erin Stead's graceful, humorous and achingly poignant artwork, the result of this extraordinary combination of talent both classic and contemporary marks a major event in children's publishing.With themes of charity, kindness and honor and with sharply drawn satire and tear-inducing pathos, this is a story that reaches through time and brings us the debut children's picture book of America's most legendary writer, imagined through the monumental talent of two of today's most important names in children's literature.

• Book Type :

Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

0553523228

• The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine Published On :

2017

• Resource:

Children\'s & Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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