Mcbroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm : : Three Tall Tales

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Three humorous adventures on McBroom's wonderful one-acre prairie farm.

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How about thirteen people in a family? submitted by unknown on January 29, 2012, 7:37pm Book review by Sefa

Josh McBroom and his family pack up all of their things and go west. The McBroom family buys a one acre farm. They make it wonderful. Sid Fleischman is the author of this fantastic book that tells the story of the McBrooms. He won an important medal for writing The Whipping Boy.

McBroom’s Wonderful One-Acre Farm is about Josh McBroom and his kids who grow a huge ear of corn and take it to a fair. They paint the ear of corn white. The McBroom’s ear of corn wins the first prize. The book is full of funny stories. When the children hear “pop pop pop”, they think it is a heavy snowfall but it turns out that it is actually the popcorn that is made at the fair.

Josh McBroom has a huge family: he has eleven children with his wife Mellissa McBroom. They have funny names that rhyme: Will, Jill, Hester, Chester, Peter, Polly, Tim, Tom, Mary, Larry and of course little Clarinda. Can you imagine a family with thirteen people? It is impressive that a woman would have eleven children. The family has lots of adventures. Children get blown up a chimney pipe and the father has to go try to grab them by flying up the chimney pipe himself and get the children with a rope.

What I like about the story is that McBroom is so argumentative and he also has funny and unusual ideas. For example, he says “Will, Jill, Hester, Chester, Peter, Polly, Tim, Tom, Mary, Larry, and little Clarinda! Start getting brooms and brushes and fly swats. Grasshoppers are flying and hopping and jumping everywhere. Quick! Hurry!” I did not expect that the father of the family would ask the children to swat and hit the grasshoppers. They all help but the grasshoppers jump around little Clarinda. This book is hilarious.

Josh McBroom and his family have lots of spirit, humor, and strength for each other. This is a family that gets along very well. You can believe everyone in the McBroom family and you can trust them. Josh McBroom would rather die than tamper with the truth. He does not like to tell lies and is a truthful person. Technically, if there is a chimney and you are half way up the chimney in a very strong wind (and I mean very strong) you could get blown up. When the children are hanging in the air, it makes you think whether this is possible or not.

The book is well written and the author is trying to tell you that if you sell something you should show customers around and give them what they bought (make it cheap!). The book also reminds you that when you go through difficult times you should think of something happy and exciting.

Kind of funny submitted by r-chopra on June 19, 2013, 7:44am Love to read lots of names at the same time!