McBROOM'S ZOO

by Sid Fleishman ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 1972

You'd think that McBroom's truth-stretching tongue would have tuckered itself out by now but the fact is his yarns are as ""eternal clever"" as ever. This time it seems as how a tornado rips through the farm and sucks up not only the McBrooms' entire crop of five-minute tomatoes but every glorious handful of their powerful rich topsoil to boot. Well sir all Pa and the kids have to do is follow the trail of gritty ketchup to find their farm dumped 40 miles across the prairie, and the problem of raising money to have it hauled back is solved by a downpour of rare animals via the whirlwind. The young-'uns simply collect a quarter a head (children free) for admission to their zoo, which includes a wrong-legged Sidehill Gouger, a backward-swimming dryland catfish called a Desert Vamooser, and a Great Seventeen-Toed Hairy Prairie Hidebehind. Just pay no mind to Werth's less inventive tomato-colored notions of their appearance; McBroom is a genuine character and he never seems to run out of easy-reading, kid-pleasing whoppers.

Pub Date: Oct. 1, 1972

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1972

Categories: FICTION