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Title: Mike Fink by Steven Kellogg ISBN: 0-688-13577-3 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 27 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: All the classic tall tale elements
Comment: With "Mike Fink," author and illustrator Steve Kellogg gathers up in one story all the classic elements of an American tall tale: rasslin' with bears, lifting boats over one's head, leaping across great divides, kicking out the slats in one's cradle, and more.
Mike Fink is a young man with a lot to prove and a good heart. Kellogg endows him with burly good looks and a great big smile, even as he has to twist a few arms to get attention paid to his exploits. The cartoon-like illustrations are colorful and boisterous, which perfectly suits the rhythm of the text. Lots of fun for any kid who enjoys tall tales (especially tall tales with a Mark Twainesque flavor, as this has rivers and steamboats a-plenty!).
Rating: 5
Summary: An exciting story about early America
Comment: MIke Fink is a story with lots of surprises and great pictures.Mike was able to do many things that seemed impossible. If you want to read about a boy who was determined to get what he wanted, this is the book for you.Our whole class really liked hearing this story.
Rating: 3
Summary: This story fails to tell the story of the real mountain man.
Comment: It is clear that this is a tall tale as Mike runs away from home at age two days. The illustrations are very well done. BUT Mike Fink was a real person, and I would prefer a real story about the real character instead of this yarn. Kellogg could have made up a character and told the same story. It has nothing to do with the real Mike Fink.
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Title: Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett : A Tall Tale by Steven Kellogg ISBN: 0688171133 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 28 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg, Laura Robb ISBN: 0688099246 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 18 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Paul Bunyan 20th Anniversary Edition by Steven Kellogg ISBN: 0688058000 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 17 June, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg ISBN: 0688064175 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 22 August, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: John Henry by Julius Lester, Jerry Pinkney, Dena Wallenstein Neusner ISBN: 0140566228 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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