McWhinney's Jaunt
Book Details
| Title: | McWhinney's Jaunt | ||||||||
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| Published: | 1951 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Little, Brown, and Company | ||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, juvenile | ||||||||
| Description: | McWhinney's Jaunt is a travel adventure delightfully illustrated by the author Robert Lawson with pen and ink drawings. It tells of an absent-minded professor who develops a "hitherto unknown gas having tremendous lifting power" that he names Z-Gas and uses to fill the tires of his bicycle. He finds that the weight of his body counterbalances the buoyancy of the tires, and he can rise in the air by "leaning back in the saddle and peddling briskly." Since the university is on summer break and his wife had taken up needlepoint, he decides to ride his modified bicycle to Hollywood, where he feels it will "earn him an engagement in the motion pictures more remunerative" than his professorship. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 51 | ||||||||
| Pages: | 42  |
Author Bio for Lawson, Robert
Robert Lawson (October 4, 1892 – May 27, 1957) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.
In 1922, he illustrated his first children's book, The Wonderful Adventures of Little Prince Toofat. Subsequently he illustrated dozens of children's books by other authors, including such well-known titles as The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf (which later became an animated short by Walt Disney Productions in 1938) and Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater. In total, he illustrated as many as forty books by other authors, and another seventeen books that he himself was author of, including Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin By His Good Mouse Amos (which also later became an animated short by Walt Disney Productions in 1953) and Rabbit Hill. His work was widely admired, and he became the first, and so far only, person to be given both the Caldecott Medal (They Were Strong and Good, 1941) and the Newbery Medal (Rabbit Hill, 1945). Ben and Me earned a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1961.
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