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Little Randall Patrick McSquirrel meets Big Nurse Ratched the Bear in an epic power struggle over who controls the nuts. No, seriously - this children's story is told in an utterly charming, folksy style you might never expect from the fellow who wrote a famous tale of tragedy and woe set in a loony-bin. And, oh, how I love this description of an early autumn morning:Hanging in the low limbs of the crab-apple trees was some of those strings of daybreak fog called "haint hair" by them that believ...
it's mostly a pretty standard picture book, but still
One of the best narratives ever if you have a flair for characterization in voice and enjoy reading to captivated children. Illustrations are to die for. Can still recite from memory certain passages that were swirling in the imaginations of my young, attentive children a quarter-century ago. The best fun of being a parent with the television off. Before the Internet and anti-social media.
My guess is Ken Kesey never had kids.Was bought new for me by my great-aunt, when I was eight. So it's taken me 30 years to get around to it. The heavy accent makes the prose inaccessible kid-wise, and it's a pretty classic trickster story steeped in that heavy accent. But I found the eating-sentient people pretty off-putting and the humor was way over my head at age eight, so despite really liking the movie version of Cuckoo's Nest, I couldn't get into it.
Big oil cooperate chain store franchise man wanna take down small town hero story start up crypto to save dying daughter who has the ADHD. But they do Man Vs Food instead. They both like milkshakes. Forget the plot. Big old Double Bubble commit suicide he’s so confused. Gives birth to woodland ecosystem! Never knew pregnant. Nurse Ratched visits. Tells them brain lightning is good for growth. Badger break window to make sure. Hitchhiker now. Oh, and the squirrel sign 10 figure mouse contract. Ha...
Who knew that, like James Joyce and Jenna Bush, Ken Kesey was a children's author? Anyone can do it, it seems. Just alliterate a lot. Like Ken:"'You backwoods bully!' Sally hisses. 'You ridge-running rowdy!What are you doing down out of your ridges ripping up our rivers? This isn't your play puddle!'"Apparently, this is a story that Kesey's grandmother told to him.I'm a huge fan, and this made me ashamed for him. Ken, this isn't your play puddle.
i. love. ken. kesey.i saw him tell this story in person. he wore a bandana and was so animated when he performed this tale. i can still hear his big booming voice reverberating between my ears and into my heart. little tricker was passed to him from his grandmother.
I had to cross this one in between picture book and juvie fiction. In it, Kesey shares a wonderful tale passed down through his family, plenty of voices and expressions to be used, great for a program when you have more than 15 minutes.
An amusing trickster tale set in the Ozarks with delightful illustrations by Barry Moser.
