Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion: A True Story Dave Eggers

Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion: A True Story

Author: Dave Eggers
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Book Title
Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion: A True Story
Author
Dave Eggers
ISBN
9781536215885
Author Dave Eggers and artist Júlia Sardà spin a quirky historical event into a whimsical and tall-ish true tale of American ingenuity. Make way for history as only Dave Eggers could stage it. It all started when John "Minnie" Moore built a mine in Idaho and sold it to Englishman Henry Miller. Then Henry married a local lass named Annie and built her a mansion, hence the "Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion." After Henry died and Annie was hoodwinked--losing all but the mansion--she and her son took to raising pigs in the yard, as some are wont to do. But the town wanted those pigs out. Who could have guessed that Annie and her crew would remove the whole mansion instead--rolling it away slowly on logs--while she and her son were still living in it? Narrated with metafictional flair, this delightfully illustrated picture book is proof positive that nonfiction can be as lively and artful as any storybook.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Dave EggersPublisher: Candlewick Press (MA)Published: 06/06/2023ISBN: 9781536215885Pages: 56Weight: 1.25lbsReview Citations: Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2023Publishers Weekly 04/24/2023Booklist 05/01/2023 pg. 38Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2023Foreword 04/27/2023
Author Dave Eggers and artist Júlia Sardà spin a quirky historical event into a whimsical and tall-ish true tale of American ingenuity.

Make way for history as only Dave Eggers could stage it. It all started when John "Minnie" Moore built a mine in Idaho and sold it to Englishman Henry Miller. Then Henry married a local lass named Annie and built her a mansion, hence the "Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion." After Henry died and Annie was hoodwinked--losing all but the mansion--she and her son took to raising pigs in the yard, as some are wont to do. But the town wanted those pigs out. Who could have guessed that Annie and her crew would remove the whole mansion instead--rolling it away slowly on logs--while she and her son were still living in it? Narrated with metafictional flair, this delightfully illustrated picture book is proof positive that nonfiction can be as lively and artful as any storybook.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 06/06/2023
ISBN: 9781536215885
Pages: 56
Weight: 1.25lbs

Review Citations: Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 04/24/2023
Booklist 05/01/2023 pg. 38
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2023
Foreword 04/27/2023
Author Dave Eggers and artist Júlia Sardà spin a quirky historical event into a whimsical and tall-ish true tale of American ingenuity.

Make way for history as only Dave Eggers could stage it. It all started when John "Minnie" Moore built a mine in Idaho and sold it to Englishman Henry Miller. Then Henry married a local lass named Annie and built her a mansion, hence the "Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion." After Henry died and Annie was hoodwinked--losing all but the mansion--she and her son took to raising pigs in the yard, as some are wont to do. But the town wanted those pigs out. Who could have guessed that Annie and her crew would remove the whole mansion instead--rolling it away slowly on logs--while she and her son were still living in it? Narrated with metafictional flair, this delightfully illustrated picture book is proof positive that nonfiction can be as lively and artful as any storybook.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 06/06/2023
ISBN: 9781536215885
Pages: 56
Weight: 1.25lbs

Review Citations: Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 04/24/2023
Booklist 05/01/2023 pg. 38
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2023
Foreword 04/27/2023