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    By the Great Horn Spoon!
    By the Great Horn Spoon!
    By the Great Horn Spoon!
    Audiobook4 hours

    By the Great Horn Spoon!

    Written by Sid Fleischman

    Narrated by Willard E. Lape

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    One of Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman's most beloved books, this rip-snortin' saga of a young man and his butler bound for California during the great Gold Rush was just made to be read by a full cast. Our collection of coots, codgers, geezers, and outlaws will have you laughing out loud—when you're not holding your breath in suspense!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFull Cast Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2004
    ISBN9781932076660
    By the Great Horn Spoon!
    Author

    Sid Fleischman

    Sid Fleischman wrote more than sixty books for children, adults, and magicians. Among his many awards was the Newbery Medal for his novel The Whipping Boy. The author described his wasted youth as a magician and newspaperman in his autobiography The Abracadabra Kid. His other titles include The Entertainer and the Dybbuk, a novel, and three biographies, Sir Charlie: Chaplin, The Funniest Man in the World; The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West; and Escape! The Story of The Great Houdini.

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    • 5/5
      Wholesome and great to listen with kids!! Highly recommend!
    • 5/5
      It was the second best book I've ever read in my whole entire life
    • 3/5
      It would be better if it was a little more interesting and had more oomph! I am right now I have a little again
    • 5/5
      very good book! We would love more by this author.
    • 4/5
      This is a great book about family and friends. It is a fast-paced story filled with a lot of information about the California Gold Rush. All of Praiseworthy’s and Jack’s ideas make readers clutch their seat, hoping they don’t get themselves into a heap of trouble! The full-cast audio made it doubly enjoyable as well! I would have given this book five stars if the Native Americans were not called savages. And I felt the fight between Praiseworthy and the Mountain Ox was not needed. Otherwise I loved it!!!! Definitely a Must Read.

      {This review was written by a 12 year old}.
    • 5/5
      Cool book! My sister’s third grade teacher read this to her class!
    • 5/5
      Great book for 4th graders to read. Fun to have audio version with authentic voices.
    • 5/5
      The book is great as it is not as a read out loud
    • 3/5
      children's historical fiction (gold rush adventure with some fist-fighting and pistol brandishing, boat travel). An unlikely story (butler travels with runaway boy to make fortune together to bring back to boy's financially-strained aunt) but a nice adventure with a full audio cast.
    • 4/5
      I had fun reading this with a 4th grade class I subbed for. The kids really liked it and it was an entertaining way for them to learn some Gold Rush history.
    • 4/5
      Probably would work well for 'tween male reluctant readers. Could also be read aloud, a bit at a time, by a social studies teacher. I live near 'Hangtown' (now Placerville) and other mining towns, and still I learned a lot. I see in the search results that there are teaching guides available - if I were to include this in my curriculum I'd definitely pick up one of those, too, as there was a lot of detail in the history as for instance road agents, Long Toms, tempting people to come to an auction with free butter (to slice and eat there like popcorn on a bar), ratlines on a ship, etc. etc.

      But primarily it's a truly rollicking adventure, with just enough heart to keep a reader engaged in the characters while s/he turns the pages wondering how they're going to get out of this scrape and wondering what adventure they'll experience next.
    • 5/5
      I've been reading this book aloud to my 9 yo ds. It is a rollicking good read! Two adventurers head from Boston to California to make their fortune during the Gold Rush. Their adventures start as their boat travels around the tip of South America. The excitement continues as they finally make it to California to search for gold. Tension abounds with evil characters like Cut-Eye Higgins and natural dangers in the form of grizzly bears. Each chapter is exciting, funny and clever! If you enjoy adventure, humor, historical fiction and tall tales, then this book is for you! The ultimate critic of boring books, my ds, loves it!
    • 4/5
      I loved it, it is very funny, and the movie was even funnier, but I loved all the things that happened, it was a very funny book
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed the "full cast" audio book very much. I have no idea if it appeals to children, but I would think so. Fairly fast moving and funny. I was suprised it was written back in 1963 (except one of the characters takes up smoking - you wouldn't see that today!)
    • 4/5
      Fast moving adventure book for children, full of historical and geographical detail.
    • 5/5
      The movie version of this book is Disney's Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, very enjoyable, as is the book!
    • 4/5
      My children and I enjoyed this tale. The story of a young man in the Gold Rush era. Romanticized, but lots of fun and plenty of facts too. More interesting to us because one of our ancestors came to California around the Great Horn Spoon as well.