- Individuality, Individuality in fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
When a seagull drops a can of orange paint on his neat house, Mr. Plumbean gets an idea that affects his entire neighborhood.
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Warm, classical in form, spare and effortless.
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Manus Pinkwater
- First published
- 1886
- Pages
- 31
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc., Tandem Library, Scholastic Paperbacks
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- gre, tur, English
- ISBN
- 9780590415972
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First sentence
“And he dropped the can (no one knows why) right over Mr. Plumbean's house.”
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