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(hardcover with black spine)
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(Hardcover. No DJ. Pages clean and unmarked. One page has ...)
Hardcover. No DJ. Pages clean and unmarked. One page has a tear in middle. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Binding tight, hinges strong.
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( On Cattermole’s 100 Best Children’s Books of the 20th C...)
On Cattermole’s 100 Best Children’s Books of the 20th Century list and a 1936 Newbery Honor Book, this children’s classic is sure to please children of all ages. What do you do when a moose takes over your town? Three young boys try to save a moose through the cold Minnesota winter.
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(Dust jacket art by Haberstock. A novel about early settle...)
Dust jacket art by Haberstock. A novel about early settlements in Iowa.
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(Stated First Edition. Dodd Mead & Co of New York, 1935. N...)
Stated First Edition. Dodd Mead & Co of New York, 1935. Newbery Honor winner in 1936. From Wikipedia: "Honk, the Moose is a children's book by Phil Stong. It tells the story of a moose who takes over a small town which causes an uproar when three young boys try to save the moose and make it through the cold Minnesota winter.1 The book, illustrated by Kurt Wiese, was first published in 1935, and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1936.2 In 1970, it won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was listed in Cattermole's 100 Best Children's Books of the 20th Century. Based on a true story from Biwabik, Minnesota, it effectively describes the lives of Finnish immigrants there.3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honk,_the_Moose
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(First published in the spring of 1932, Phil Stong's whims...)
First published in the spring of 1932, Phil Stong's whimsical and wise State Fair was an immediate success. Hollywood released a film that fall starring Will Rogers as Abel Frake and a champion hog from an Iowa farm as the famous Blue Boy, "the finest Hampshire stud boar in the world." In 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical motion picture launched such memorable songs as "It Might as Well Be Spring." In 1962 a movie musical with Pat Boone and Ann-Margret was set at the Texas State Fair. And in 1995 a highly entertaining adaptation of the 1945 musical premiered at the Iowa State Fair before moving on to Broadway. This paperback edition of State Fair, with a new foreword by Robert McCown, reprints the original novel in all its exuberance and freshness. On the surface State Fair simply recounts the adventures of the close-knit Frake family at the Iowa State Fair in the late 1920s, but Stong's universal morality tale has much to reveal to anyone willing to read between the lines. The book shocked some readers in 1932, but most were captivated by the Frakes' good-natured integrity and applauded their spirit. Readers today will find the same joy, liveliness, and insight in this new edition of State Fair.
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He was born on January 27, 1899 near Pittsburg, Iowa, United States, the eldest of three sons of Benjamin Jacob Stong, and Ada Evesta Duffield. Stong, a merchant, later moved his business to the nearby Van Buren County seat, Keosauqua, where he became postmaster.
Phil Stong was educated in the Keosauqua schools and at Drake University, where he received (1919) a B. A. in journalism. Later he enrolled at Columbia University to pursue an M. A. but soon wearied of all but Carl Van Doren's writing classes.
Stong taught at Biwabik, Minnesota, for the academic year 1919-1920. From the fall of 1921 to December 1923 he taught at Neodesho, Kansas.
In January 1924 he went to Drake to teach debate and journalism, but a part-time reporting job for the Des Moines (Iowa) Register soon led to full-time employment. All this is told with typical Stong lightheartedness in If School Keeps (1940). In that book he credits his editor, Harvey Ingham, and a teacher, Lewis Worthington Smith, with showing him how to eliminate "the more florid terms and locutions" from his writing.
From 1925 to 1932 Stong worked in New York City successively as a wire editor for the Associated Press, a copy editor for North American Newspaper Alliance, a staffer for Liberty and Editor and Publisher, Sunday feature editor of the World, and as an advertising writer for Young and Rubicam.
In 1932, after twelve failures, his thirteenth book-length manuscript, State Fair, was published and became a Literary Guild selection. It was filmed three times, in 1932, 1945, and 1961.
Stong's books were a welcome relief during the Depression and war years from what he called the "Sheep Dip" school of literature and what a critic called the "Devil take the farm" novel. Though he had no children, his children's books show an obvious liking and understanding of his readers.
He died of a heart attack at Washington, Connecticut, while working on his forty-third book.
Phillip Duffield is best known for the novel State Fair, which was adapted as a film three times (1933, 1945 and 1962) and as a Broadway musical in 1996. The best of his twenty children's books are The Hired Man's Elephant (1939), which won the New York Herald Tribune Award in 1939; Farm Boy (1934); High Water (1937) and others. He also wrote the text for a photographic book, County Fair (1938).
( On Cattermole’s 100 Best Children’s Books of the 20th C...)
(First published in the spring of 1932, Phil Stong's whims...)
(Dust jacket art by Haberstock. A novel about early settle...)
(hardcover with black spine)
(Stated First Edition. Dodd Mead & Co of New York, 1935. N...)
(Hardcover. No DJ. Pages clean and unmarked. One page has ...)
Quotations:
About his writing career, he once said, "Fell while trying to clamber out of a low bathtub at the age of two. Became a writer. No other possible career. "
Asked in 1951 to comment on humanism, Stong responded: "I’ve never gone deeply enough into any of the various definitions of “humanism” to be able to make any intelligent or instructive comment on the subject. When I read any of these tenuous expositions, they remind me (a) of the blind men and the elephant and (b) that I’d better have a glass of beer and get to bed. I don’t see how you distinguish between the humanism of More and that of Dewey or of Aristophanes or Lackland or Chaucer or Bunyan or Saintsbury or Taine. The boys that practice it seem to me tremendously more effective than the ones who preach it from the varied pulpits. "
On November 8, 1925, Stong married Virginia Maude Swain, whom he had met at Drake and who also worked for the Register. She too became a novelist; her The Hollow Skin (1938) and Dollar Gold Piece (1942) were warmly received by critics.
