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Van Nutt, Julia

Skyrockets and Snickerdoodles: A Cobtown Story, from the Diaries of Lucky Hart

32 pp. | Doubleday | June, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-385-32553-3 $$15.95
(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Robert Van Nutt. In journal entries dated 1845, ten-year-old Lucky Hart recounts the events leading up to Cobtown's Fourth of July fireworks, including the defeat of a rival baseball team and the discovery of a stone marker that saves the town from being renamed Carbuncle. The story is somewhat amusing, but its diary frame feels too contrived. Full-color illustrations accompany the text.
Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger

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