A HOLE IN THE HILL

by Edwin A. Peeples ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 15, 1969

It's as if a blind man were playing anagrams with all the fictive elements in children's fiction -there's a normal nine-year-old who says ""he deaded;"" neighboring newcomers, also nine or ten, who are spanked by their fraulein for being late to meals; their city-bred parents who get hysterical about dirt; a well-regarded fox that doesn't prey on farm animals; a fox hole enlarged into a cave, another apparent fox hole that's the entrance to a real cave which was once a station on the Underground Railroad; the ghost of-a trapped slave who's waiting to break a drought so's he can ""get, to the promise land"" and whose bones have to be rearranged first; an angel chorus that pours forth when he leaves; Christmas caroling in the cave to reconcile all parties (including the farmer who was going to take his complaints to ""the squire""). Really out of this world.

Pub Date: Sept. 15, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Nelson

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1969

Categories: FICTION