SLAPPY HOOPER

by ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 12, 1946

An amusing story of a sign painter whose art was so realistic it kept him in constant difficulties. Birds ate the bread from his billboards, houses caught fire from the stoves he painted -- and yet he persevered in the practice of his art. An ungrateful public, a bitter experience in Wyoming, are nothing to Slappy Hooper who suffers for his realistic art as acutely, (and, more dramatically) as any proverbial radical. A different type of story, with a Bunyan-Munchausen character, that children in this age group will enjoy, and which 3rd through 5th grade readers will make their own.

Pub Date: Nov. 12, 1946

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1946

Categories: FICTION