Title: Hosea Globe and the Fantastical Peg-Legged
Chu
Author: Graydon
Beeks
Date: 1975
Publisher: Atheneum
ISBN: J-689-30464-1
Length: 168
pages
Illustrations:drawings
by Carol Nicklaus
Quote: “I
don’t believe I’ve ever seen a dog with a false leg before, especially that
sort of leg, all colors like a raibow.”
That’s
because Chu is not a real dog. A resident of Plymtree, “the village that all
the other villages in the world wished they looked like,: has invented
something dangerous enough that an interplanetary council want to remove the
inventor (Hosea Globe) from the village, and the story gets sillier from there.
Even
third-graders in 1975 probably could not imagine how Hosea Globe could have
invented anything more dangerous than nuclear bombs, which were proliferating
and giving everyone nightmares in 1975. This unanswered question interferes to
some extent with my suspension of disbelief. Nevertheless, if you firmly
resolve to enjoy this book as sheer whimsy, you probably can. I smiled.
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