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Arnold, Marsha Diane

The Pumpkin Runner

32 pp. | Dial | September, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2124-2 $$15.99 | Library ISBN 0-8037-2125-0 $$15.89
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Brad Sneed. In this tall tale inspired by a true story, a sixty-year-old Australian sheep rancher gains the energy to run around his ten-thousand-acre ranch by eating pumpkins. When he enters a nine-hundred-kilometer race, he surprises everyone but himself by finishing first. Oil paintings with unusual perspectives and a likable protagonist add to the text's understated humor.
Reviewer: Jackie C. Horne

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