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Leroy Ninker Saddles up
Tales From Deckawoo Drive Series, Book 1
eBook - 2014
Yippie-i-oh! Saddle up for the first in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from Kate DiCamillo's New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse—until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground, rescue the horse of his heart, and lasso loneliness for good? Join Leroy, Maybelline, and a cast of familiar characters—Stella, Frank, Mrs. Watson, and everyone's favorite porcine wonder, Mercy—for some hilarious and heartfelt horsing around on Deckawoo Drive.
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Publisher:
Somerville : Candlewick Press, 2014.
ISBN:
9780763674083
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Overdrive
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Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, and then it's love at first sight. Look for more in the Tales from Deckawoo Drive series!
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Add a CommentAnother story in the Deckawoo Drive series. Silly, wacky, ridiculous. Author is the wonderful storyteller, Kate DiCamillo. Really like the illustrator, Chris Van Dusen. Ages 4-8 is the target audience?
Lessons in love and responsibility.
The hilarious and moving story of Leroy, his dream and his perfect match of a horse made us laugh and feel a sweet nostalgic kind of love for them aching for more beautiful words of the heart.
Funny! Lots of easy new vocabulary learning!
I love this book
Wonderful, my 8 yrd old grandson loved this book and wants to read more of the same.
Here's book for fans of DiCamillo's Mercy Watson series introducing a small-in-stature cowboy named Leroy Ninker and his new horse Maybelline. It's as goofy as all get out and worthy of a whole-hearted, "Yeehaw!" Grades 1-3
"In real life, Leroy Ninker sells popcorn at the Bijou Drive-In Theater. But in his dreams, Leroy is a cowboy just like the ones in the Wednesday night Western movie double feature. Determined to make his dreams come true, Leroy learns to talk and dress like a cowboy (boots, hat, and all) and goes in search of a trusty steed. What he finds, however, is Maybelline, an old horse who loves sweet talk and prefers spaghetti to hay. Supported by old-fashioned yet energetic artwork, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo's distinctively quirky blend of humour and heart shines in this chapter book spin-off of the popular Mercy Watson series." Kids' Books September 2014 newsletter http://www.libraryaware.com/996/NewsletterIssues/ViewIssue/92276712-a213-4830-9624-521bd48b6675?postId=2ab03d3a-8acd-4faf-a27b-d8e1bac4d525
is it a baby book?