Call Me Bandicoot

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Or call him the Scheherezade of the Staten Island ferry A head inclined in the direction of the water Filthy, isn t it and he s into the story of How Ermine Bandicoot Filled New York Harbor With Cigarette Tobacco Into it just enough that the listener pays the price of a hot dog and soda pop to hear it and the price of an apple turnover a la mode to get from Ermine Bandicoot s stinginess to his butt collection and several candy bars to reach his great scheme for the Statue of Liberty, the mammoth cigarette to stink up New York, promoting the anti pollution and anti smoking campaigns and two postcard pictures of this phenomenon to put the tobacco into the water and a dollar tip to top it off Coming back the boy buttonholes a British traveler looking for the UN with the tale of Ermine Bandicoot and the Casa Nostril, a confraternity of big nosed bigwigs his business card reads ERMINE BANDICOOT STORIES AND INVENTIONS ANY SUBJECT MATTER ENTERTAINMENT GUARANTEED Followed ashore, he folds up into Hermann Vanden Kroote, Jr., disaffected son of the cigarette mogul The conclusion It s tough to be a kid and have principles, really tough to squeeze out a miserly existence particularly if you happen to choose that oldest of noble professions, storytelling Appropriately, fewer pictures and story than in others Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead et al of this series and of course Herman Ermine is sinned against than sinning his vulnerability ices a masterly performance Kirkus Review Free Read [ Call Me Bandicoot ] By [ William Pène du Bois ] – kino-fada.fr Another gem found on the shelves at work I was automatically drawn to the Paul McCartney look a like aboard the Staten Island Ferry cover When I flipped the book over, the back was covered in cigarette butts Of course, I HAD to read this.Our narrator is on the ferry toward Staten Island on his way to an art exhibit He is just looking at the filthy water in the harbour it is 1970 after all , when a dapper young man sidles up to him and asks...Apparently part of a series of books on the seven deadly sins, this is an entertaining kids book about stinginess Creative storyteller Ermine Bandicoot will do anything to make a dime On a ferry ride, he regales a fellow passenger with some of his schemes The illustrations are great.Very, very odd A young con artist on a ferry tells fantastical stories Reminds me of Daniel Pinkwater books.

Call Me Bandicoot
  • English
  • 12 August 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 64 pages
  • 0060246979
  • William Pène du Bois
  • Call Me Bandicoot