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Title: Call Me Bandicoot. by William Pene Dubois ISBN: 0-06-024697-9 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: June, 1970 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $4.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Call Me Bandicoot - William Pene du Bois
Comment: This unusual tale, one of Du Bois' Seven Deadly Sins series, deals with stinginess. Bandicoot is a boy from a wealthy robber-baron style family who has abandoned his home and earns his keep by riding back and forth on the Staten Island ferry, buttonholing passengers and telling them tall tales in exchange for hotdogs, sodas, etc. The narrator, a buttonholed passenger, finds Bandicoot extremely irritating, but can't resist hearing the continuation of his stories so keeps supplying him with food. I can't quite analyze why it is that the reader feels so uplifted at the end of the book - possibly from a lifetime of having made the same choices as Bandicoot himself.
The illustrations are equally wonderful!