The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine ペーパーバック版

マーク・トウェインの未発表原稿を元にした物語『さらわれたオレオマーガリン王子』。
フィリップ・スティッド&エリン・スティッドによって魅力的な本となりました。

遠くはないがたどり着くことはできず、名前を発音するのが困難を極め、貧しい者はずっと貧しいままの国。
この国で貧しく不幸な暮らしをしていたジョニーは、ひょんなことから動物と話せるようになります。動物たちの協力のもと、行方不明になったこの国の王子を探しに向かったのでした……。

マーク・トウェインのノートに書き留められた話の断片が、美しい挿絵で蘇った冒険物語です。

The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine
Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author) , Stead, Philip C (Author) , Stead, Erin (Illustrator)
EAN: 9780593303825
Publisher: Yearling Books
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: March 09, 2021
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: H x 21.00 cms L x 15.2 cm W

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A never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children's story is brought to life by Philip and Erin Stead, creators of the Caldecott Medal-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee.
In a hotel in Paris one evening in 1879, Mark Twain sat with his young daughters, who begged their father for a story. Twain began telling them the tale of Johnny, a poor boy in possession of some magical seeds. Later, Twain would jot down some rough notes about the story, but the tale was left unfinished . . . until now.
Plucked from the Mark Twain archive at the University of California at Berkeley, Twain's notes now form the foundation of a fairy tale picked up over a century later. With only Twain's fragmentary script and a story that stops partway as his guide, author Philip Stead has written a tale that imagines what might have been if Twain had fully realized this work.
Johnny, forlorn and alone except for his pet chicken, meets a kind woman who gives him seeds that change his fortune, allowing him to speak with animals and sending him on a quest to rescue a stolen prince. In the face of a bullying tyrant king, Johnny and his animal friends come to understand that generosity, empathy, and quiet courage are gifts more precious in this world than power and gold.
Illuminated by Erin Stead's graceful, humorous, and achingly poignant artwork, this is a story that reaches through time and brings us a new book from America's most legendary writer, envisioned by two of today's most important names in children's literature.