Title: The Pushcart WarAuthor: Jean Merrill
Pages: 223
Genre: Children's Fiction
Grade: B+
Synopsis: The pushcarts have declared war on the rude truck drivers of New York City. The streets are clogged, the trucks are smashing their carts and the public is starting to blame the pushcarts for the traffic jams. All of the pushcart people in the city band together to form an army and attack the truck tires with peashooters. The war against the three company owners and the corrupt mayor has begun.
My Review: This was an enjoyable read (and a quick one, I easily finished it in a day). It's most certainly a children's book and aside from a few things that just border on believability, it was hard to determine whether or not this was a work of fiction or a historical account of a "real" city war. It's a very funny book, and I can't help but smile even while writing this and thinking about some of the stories.
From the Book: "(p. 59) Carlos was known to the pushcart peddlers as the most skillful carton-flattener in the Lower East Side section of New York City. Carlos' business was to go around to small stores that had clean cardboard cartons which they wished to be rid of. With two or three deft motions, Carlos would flatten the cartons and carefully stack them on his pushcart. Carlos was the only flattener in the business who could stack to a height of twelve feet without the cartons slipping off."
2 comments:
Sheesh- are you ever going to read the book I recommended? I think it's been about a year now... anyway the book is
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
I think you'll really like it. It's a different format from other books. Plus I'm like the only person to comment on your booklist.
Now get to it!
Alright, alright. I've already requested it from the library and bumped it to the top of my list. It better be good... ;)
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