Bingleman's Midway Author:Karen Ackerman Approximately Grade 1-4. — Life changes dramatically one midsummer's day on a farm in Ohio when Bingleman's Midway rattles along Route 6 in run-down trucks. When they stop to fix a flat, Bingleman regales Nathan and his older brother, Drew, with tales of the midway's wonders. "Buncha guff," Drew retorts. But when their father takes them to the ca... more »rnival the next day and Drew sees the marvelous magic show, he sneaks out later that night to join up. Ackerman's long lyrical text beautifully captures the quiet of the farm abruptly shattered by the coming of the midway, Drew's initial nonchalance, his gradual fall under the spell of circus magic, and the understanding of a father who has felt such a tug himself. Moser's large watercolors faithfully depict farm life in the late '40s and early '50s.
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