Old Man Whickutt's Donkey

Title

en_US Old Man Whickutt's Donkey

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Mary Calhoun

Creator

en_US Calhoun, Mary See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US De Paola, Tomie

Date

2016-01-25T16:29:11Z

en_US 1999-01

en_US 1975

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:29:11Z

Date Issued

en_US 1975

Abstract

en_US I am surprised that I had never run into a reference to this book--and delighted to know that an artist as good as de Paola illustrated it. The story is told in folksy dialect. Whickutt kept talking as they drove the donkey to the mill so's they'd need him along. The sack of corn that the donkey was carrying kept sliding around, so the old man decided to tie the sack under the donkey's belly. In the meantime the sack keeps spilling, and the birds keep eating up the fallen grains. When Granny Pollard suggested that Whickutt ride, he turned out to have such long legs that he walked while he was riding! During this phase, the boy has to carry the sack. Preacher Hawkins chastises Whickutt for making the boy walk and carry a load. Mother Jones then criticized the lazy boy. When he had to carry both persons and the sack, The donkey, he was king of sagging. The Perkins family cried out Poor little donkey! Why, you'll break the beast's back… Just then, the donkey collapsed. Donkey's turn to ride! The miller across the river was about to tell them what they ought to do when Whickutt shouted I'm derned if I do, derned if I don't! and decided to please himself. Whickutt then threw each--the sack, the boy, and the donkey--over the creek. Then he threw himself across it too! Formerly in the collection of the Racine Public Library.

Identifier

en_US 0819307882 (lib. bdg.)

en_US 2975 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78404

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Parents' Magazine Press

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ7.C1278 Old 1975 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole