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American Boy
The Adventures of Mark Twain
By Brown, Don
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-61817-997-8
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2003
Gr 2-6 Brown continues to apply his understated humor and muted watercolors to larger-than-life personalities in picture-book biographies. This portrayal of Samuel Clemens opens with a forbidden nocturnal ice-skating escapade, a disclaimer, and a justification. Brown frames the foolishness, but lets his subject have the last flippant word. These quoted phrases pepper the text, enhancing the flavor. In covering Clemens's childhood, Brown manages to slip in facts while elaborating on moments and realities that shaped the storytell...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
