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The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn

By: Robert Burleigh, Barry Blitt (Illustrator)

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Hardcover | 8 March 2011

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Everyone knows the story of the raft on the Mississippi and that ol' whitewashed fence, but now it’s time for youngins everywhere to get right acquainted with the man behind the pen. Mr. Mark Twain! An interesting character, he was...even if he did sometimes get all gussied up in linen suits and even if he did make it rich and live in a house with so many tiers and gazebos that it looked like a weddin’ cake. All that’s a little too proper and hog tied for our narrator, Huckleberry Finn, but no one is more right for the job of telling this picture book biography than Huck himself. (We’re so glad he would oblige.) And, he’ll tell you one thing—that Mr. Twain was a piece a work! Famous for his sense of humor and saying exactly what’s on his mind, a real satirist he was—perhaps America’s greatest. Ever. True to Huck’s voice, this picture book biography is a river boat ride into the life of a real American treasure.

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The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn.

Burleigh, Robert (Author) , Blitt, Barry (Illustrator)
Mar 2011. 48 p. Atheneum, hardcover, $17.99. (9780689830419).
The neat switcheroo in this picture-book biography has the story of Mark Twain’s life told by one of his
most endearing characters, Huck Finn. As one might expect, Huck isn’t the most articulate of narrators (“I ain’t no highfalutin’ talker”), and he would probably rather be doing just about anything else: “This ain’t
intendin’ to be some windy biografy. I don’t lean much to writin’, and I don’t fetch to books much neither,
’specially long ones.” Although Huck’s narration is almost overwhelmingly folksy, his undeniably cheery
tone is infectious. He succinctly traces Clemens’ life from a boyhood romping around the shores of the
Mississippi to his odd-jobbing endeavors as a steamboat captain, newspaper reporter, soldier, and
prospector until he finally finds his true calling, as a “for-real writer,” and becomes one of the most
famous men in the world. Blitt, a frequent New Yorker cartoonist, provides jaunty, cartoony pen-andwatercolor artwork, with exaggerated, tall-tale figures and period charm aplenty. Just the biography to reinforce, or even introduce, Twain’s stature as a nearly mythological figure in American letters.
— Ian Chipman
BOOKLIST, February 15, 2011

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