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THE REAL HOLE by Beverly Cleary Kirkus Star

THE REAL HOLE

by Beverly Cleary illustrated by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan

Pub Date: Sept. 7th, 1960
ISBN: 0688147410
Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins

Four-year-old Jimmy, unlike his girl twin, likes real not imagined things. And so when his father gives him a real trench shovel, he is in transports and determines to dig himself a perfectly enormous hole. This he does. But what to do with it? His family hits upon a delightful solution, and the denouement of this charming story takes into consideration the nature of the reader at whom it is directed.