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Thumb on a Diamond
By Roberts, Ken
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-88899-629-9 978-0-88899-705-0
- Publisher
- Groundwood
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2006
Gr 4-7 An unlikely baseball story begins to unfold when Mr. G. H. Entwhistle -s rowboat makes it into a remote fishing village on the coast of British Columbia. A group of kids including the narrator, a boy best known as Thumb, take the Englishman to their town, population 138. It is then that the nine children come up with a plan for a school-sponsored visit to a big city. And Mr. Entwhistle, author and illustrator of the -Bobby and Bernice Beaver - books, assumes a role as unique as his outfit on the foggy day...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2006
Even among Canadians, the town of New Auckland, on the coast of British Columbia, must seem like another country: population 138, no roads, and accessible only by water, the village boasts its own pet lion and a boy who greets visitors by showing them his amputated thumb. See The Thumb in the Box (rev. 9/01) for that story; in this one, Thumb and th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
