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Title: The Cable Car and the Dragon by Herb Caen, Barbara Ninde Byfield ISBN: 0-87701-390-X Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: April, 1986 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fun for children and adults....
Comment: You don't have to be from San Fran to love this little story, although I am sure that it helps. The plot follows Charlie the cable car as he and a favorite passenger (the narrator, who is Caen himself, of course) leave the cable car routes and decide to explore their hometown of San Francisco, coming into contact with Chu, a Chinese New Year's dragon. Caen's legendary wit is surprisingly well-suited to this kind of writing; I loved his personification of the young cable car (he compares Charlie's voice to "a piece of wood being rubbed across steel"). Byfield's watercolors help tell the story (making the book a good mixture of visuals and text) but are also pleasures in and of themselves.
The story does not have a very specific and blunt point for children to take away (which is fine with me). That said, it does imply that thinking out of the box (or off the trolley routes) is good and that making friends with people from other cultures is beneficial. Kind of appropriate for San Francisco when you think about it.
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Title: The City by the Bay: A Magical Journey Around San Francisco by Tricia Brown, the Junior League of San Francisco, Elisa Kleven, Junior League of San Francisco ISBN: 0811820122 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Maybelle the Cable Car by Virginia Lee Burton ISBN: 0395840031 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 31 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Wonder Kid Meets the Evil Lunch Snatcher by Lois Duncan ISBN: 0316195618 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 02 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: A Case for Jenny Archer by Ellen Conford ISBN: 0316153524 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 04 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo by Judy Blume ISBN: 0440467314 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 15 July, 1982 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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