The Gawgon and the Boy offers excellent period details, hysterical dialogue, and convincingly funny and authentic 11-year-old imaginings from Newbery Medal and National Book Award winner Lloyd Alexander. "In a tone that made me think of the Almighty commanding Abraham to sacrifice young Isaac, she said: 'Give me the boy.'"īut this horrible old Gorgon (Aunt Rosie translation: "Gawgon") proves to be David's perfect foil, an ingenious mentor who so impresses David-whom she takes to simply calling "The Boy" after she learns about her nickname-that she begins to co-star in his time-hopping, globe-trotting adventure stories. (A "tooter," says Aunt Rosie, to keep him from becoming an "ignoramiss.") And it could be a worse fate than David ever imagined, maybe even worse than Rittenhouse: his stern, elderly Aunt Annie volunteers for the job. McKelvie (who, incidentally, calls David "laddie-buck").īut mild exercise turns out to include more than lounging around reading books about pirates, sneaking into theaters to see "the new films that actually talk" (this being right before the Depression), and writing up clever cartoons about the "Sea-Fox," the devilishly devious scourge of the Spanish Main. David (also known as "Bax," "Skeezix," "Skinamalink," Snicklefritz," and "First Sergeant," depending on which grownup is doing the addressing) decides that he'd be more than happy to wile away his days with some fresh air and "mild exercise," as prescribed by Dr. ("New Monia," as his Aunt Rosie called it with her heavy British accent, not unlike the "Spanish Influenzo.") But all that bed rest would have been worth it if it meant he could escape Rittenhouse Academy and continue on among the rogues' gallery of eccentric friends and relatives that passes through his family's Philadelphia home. OL1966653W Pages 218 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201222131659 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 293 Scandate 20201220085644 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780525466772 Tts_version 4.Eleven-year-old David nearly died of pneumonia. Urn:lcp:gawgonboy0000lloy:lcpdf:f01f3e4b-1d9b-41a0-9104-717a994e91d0 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier gawgonboy0000lloy Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3mx29g7n Invoice 1652 Isbn 0525466770 Lccn 00047541 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.10 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1300110 Openlibrary_edition
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