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The Great Texas Hamster Drive Hardcover – Picture Book, January 5, 2012

by Eric A. Kimmel (Author), Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
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One day, Pecos Bill’s daughter Sal announces she wants a pet hamster. Her father agrees to get her two, and before she knows it, the hamsters multiply. First there are five. Then fifteen. Then twenty-eight hamsters. Eventually thousands are running around the range. They eat all the grass. They drive the longhorns away from the waterholes. Something has to be done! Why not ship them off to Chicago as city pets? And so The Great Texas Hamster Drive takes off―and that’s just the beginning of more trouble for Pecos Bill, Sal, and the whole family. Bruce Whatley’s vibrant water color illustrations bring the Southwest to life in this endearing tale.

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    4 - 9 years, from customers
  2. Print length
    40 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Grade level
    Preschool - 3
  5. Lexile measure
    540L
  6. Dimensions
    8.75 x 1 x 6.83 inches
  7. Publisher
    Two Lions
  8. Publication date
    January 5, 2012
  9. ISBN-10
    0761453571
  10. ISBN-13
    978-0761453574
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Author Eric A. Kimmel has collected and retold many tales from around the world. Among his best are Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins (A Caldecott Honor Book), Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock, and Cactus Soup. When not writing at his home in Portland, Oregon, he shares his tales at schools and conferences throughout the United States. Learn more about the author at: www.ericakimmel.com.

Illustrator Bruce Whatley is the author/illustrator of many popular and award-winning books, including The Teddy Bears’ Picnic, The Night Before Christmas, Diary of a Wombat, The Ugliest Dog in the World, Captain Pajamas, and Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase. He lives on a small farm in Australia with his wife and often co-author, Rosie Smith, two grown-up children, seven cows, one rabbit, and a very ugly dog.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Two Lions; Illustrated edition (January 5, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 40 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0761453571
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0761453574
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 4 - 9 years, from customers
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 540L
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ Preschool - 3
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.24 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.75 x 1 x 6.83 inches
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    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 60 ratings

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Eric A. Kimmel is a native New Yorker who lives in Oregon. He was born in Brooklyn, NY where he learned to love books and traditional stories from an early age. He could hear five different languages without leaving his block. Eric taught teachers as a professor of Education at Indiana University at South Bend and Portland State University. His favorite classes were children’s literature, language arts, storytelling, and handwriting. He left the university in 1993 to become a full-time writer, a dream he had had since kindergarten.

Eric’s books have won numerous awards. He and his wife Doris have traveled all over the world, sharing his books and stories with school children in China, Africa, and Turkey.

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kindergarten teacher
5.0 out of 5 stars Really Funny
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2013
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Even I had to laugh at this book, and books geared to children don't usually make me laugh. It's great for reinforcing the concept of tall tale with a Texas flair. I have lots of Eric Kimmel books, but I think this was his best!
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Cheryl Stout
4.0 out of 5 stars Pecos Bill, Slue Foot Sue, their family and a herd of hamsters
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2013
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Slue Foot Sal, Pecos Bill's daughter, wants a pet hamster. Well, she gets two hamsters and the trouble begins because the hamsters start being fruitful and multiplying.

This is a cute, funny story based on the Pecos Bill tall tales. The illustrations are wonderful and fit the story perfectly.

My only complaint - I bought the Kindle version of the book and the wording of the book is small, blurry and difficult to read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars FUN!
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2014
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This is a fun story for kids with hamsters!! Great theme and lots of fun! Love the cowboy action and the characters are pretty well developed for a children's book. Good bed time read!
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Beth and Grace
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun for all ages
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2013
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I am nine and thought this book was just going to be something for me to read to my little brother. It was a fun book. I enjoy all things hamster but this is more than that.
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Audrey Jamison Cannon
4.0 out of 5 stars Such a fun story!
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2014
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This was a sweet story, with an interesting and original storyline. My son loved it. I gave it 4/5 stars because the story could have had a few more details to make the story flow a little smoother. But, overall, it was fun and a great addition to our storybook collection.
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Joann
5.0 out of 5 stars GIFT
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2013
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i LIVE IN TEXAS AND THE LITTLE GUY THAT I BOUGHT THIS FOR LIVES IN CHICAGO
HE JUST LOVED THIS BOOK
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ancient incognito monkey
3.0 out of 5 stars charming but not as good as I expected + images are small
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2014
If you plan on reading this via a phone or a smaller tablet don't bother. I have a larger tablet (Samsung Note 10.1), and at certain portions it's barely readable - small, blurry, very poor quality. The entire book is in an image format, even the text.

I don't understand why images can't be manipulated to a larger size. It's ridiculous. Not easy for a child to read unless it's on a computer or larger tablet because the words are too small. And the images are blurry on some pages.

As for content, it starts out with promise but everything is wrapped up pretty quickly. Theres not much to it.

EDITED TO INCLUDE:

It turns out the text can be increased in size so I added a star and brought this up to three stars. Cute book, but rather thin and insubstancial and the images do not increase in size. So small devices will show tiny images.

But I have to add that I am tickled - Amazon reads our reviews and this evening I was contacted by a Kindle CS person who pleasantly informed me that the TEXT in this book can be double tapped and increased in size. (but not the images.)

He also let me know I can give a review via the order page that will go directly to the publisher and I will most certainly do that because books that are image heavy should allow readers to increase the size of the images as well. Publishers save a lot of money on digital publishing and while I'm glad they're finding a way to continue publishing for profit, this kind of miserly approach does not serve them. A book that is laden with images should be not be static. THe images should have ths same feature as the text, allowing for magnification.

That said, KUDOS to Amazon for caring!
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BeepBeep
4.0 out of 5 stars This book was great - my 5 year old daughter.
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2015
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My 8 year old girl would recommend this book for ages 5 year or younger. It was interesting how Cookie gets the hamsters out of the ground...
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