- Horses, Animals, Juvenile fiction, Ferris wheels
"You mustn't feel bad because you are not going to the fair," Mr. Penny said to Limpy, his faithful old horse. "You know about judges. They won't look at old fellows like us. But without you we wouldn't have any garden at all. And without you to pull the cart we couldn't get our things to the fairgrounds." But Limpy was sad. He thought the bandage on his lame leg made him look like a race horse, and, more than anything else, he wanted to run on the race track.
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Classical in form, earnest, intimate and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Marie Hall Ets
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 63
- Publisher
- Viking Juvenile, Viking Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670481422
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Marie Hall Ets (December 16, 1895 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – January 17, 1984 in Inverness, Florida) was an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books. She attended Lawrence College, and in 1918, Ets journeyed to Chicago where she became a social worker at the Chicago Commons, a settlement house on the northwest side of the city. There she met Ines Cassettari, an immigrant from Italy who worked at the settlement. Ets transcribed Cassettari's autobiography, and the book was later published as Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant. In 1960 Ets won the annual Caldecott Medal for her illustrations of Nine Days to Christmas, whose text she wrote with Aurora Lab
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