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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.