The purloining of Prince Oleomargarine
A never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children's story is brought to life by Caldecott Medal winners Philip Stead and Erin Stead. In a hotel in Paris one evening in the 1879, Mark Twain sat with his young daughters, who begged their father for a story. Choosing a picture from a magazine to get started, Twain began telling them the tale of Johnny, a poor boy in possession of some magical seeds, who finds himself on a quest to rescue a stolen prince. Later, Twain would jot down some rough notes about the story, but the tale was left unfinished . . . until now. Plucked from the Mark Twain archives at the University of California, Berkeley, Twain's notes now form the foundation of a fairy tale picked up over a century later. With only Twain's fragmentary script and a story that stops partway as his guide, author Philip Stead has written a tale that imagines what might have been if Twain had fully realized this work.This is a story that reaches through time and brings us the debut children's book of America's most legendary writer, envisioned by one of today's most important names in children's literature.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525498698
- ISBN: 0525498699
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (1 hr., 11 min.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Listening Library (Audio), 2017.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Keegan-Michael Key and various performers. |
Target Audience Note: | 7-8. |
Source of Description Note: | Hard copy version record. |
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Genre: | Audiobooks. Fiction. Juvenile works. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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