
Take the Big Picture
James Reaney(Author)
Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada (Publisher)
Published on 15. October 1986
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-88984-087-4 (ISBN)
Description
Was there ever such a family? Fired from his job at the University for letting all the mice free from their cages in the biology labs, Mr Delahay went home to find that his house was falling into the river. Moving into his mother's large, old house proved no solution. His equally large family -- two girls and four boys, three of them triplets -- were too mischievous and troublesome for his mother to stand. So she banished most of them to British Columbia where they had adventures with Sasquatches and a carwash owner named Buck whose life's dream it was to capture one of these Wild Men of the Woods. Returning to their home town in Ontario, the Delahays find that their having a home again depends on the oldest boy's skill at telling a story that will keep an eccentric old lady so interested she will let them stay with her yet one more night until she finds out how the story ends. Well, eventually, the story does have to end, but not before a great deal of hilarity and a great deal of wild adventures involving a motorbiker, a confidence woman masquerading as a baby sitter, and a leap through a Suicide Door. This is a different kind of story, filled with unexpected turns that even include a story within the story that you can try finishing yourself!
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ontario
Canada
Target group
Young adult
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
313 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88984-087-4 (9780889840874)
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