- Children's songs, Children's stories, Easy books, English Folk songs
A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.
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Plot-driven, effortless, intimate and spare.
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- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Barbara Emberley, Ed Emberley
- First published
- 1967
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall, Inc., Holiday house, Little Simon
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140500578
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“Drummer Hoff fired it off.”
Barbara and Ed Emberley’s collaborations include the Caldecott Honor Book One Wide River to Cross. Ed’s books have also been honored on the New York Times’s annual Best Illustrated Books List. The Emberleys live in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
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