Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Pee-Wee Harris in Luck (eBook, PDF)

(Illustrated Edition)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An amusing tale of the continuing scout adventures of Pee Wee Harris. The story centers around a "floating island" that Pee Wee finds in the river one morning. A point of land eroded off and fell into a dredger's scow, creating the island. Pee Wee and other scouts claim it as a scout camp and have numerous advdntures as the scow is tossed up and down the river by the tides.

Pee-Wee goes with his mother to spend the summer on a farm, where he meets a girl who is bewailing her fate that there is no society at this obscure retreat. Pee-Wee assures her he will fix everything for her, and proceeds to do so, with his usual success. All readers of the Tom Slade and the Roy Blakeley books are acquainted with Pee-wee Harris. These stories record the true facts concerning his size (what there is of it) and his heroism (such as it is), his voice, his clothes, his appetite, his friends, his enemiesm his victims. Together with the thrilling narrative of how he foiled, baffled, circumvented and triumphed over everything and everybody (except where he failed) and how even when he failed he succeeded. The whole recoded in a series of screams and told with neither muffler nor cut-out.
 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: iOnlineShopping.com
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788832576214
• Artikelnr.: 56248299

Autorenporträt

Percy Keese Fitzhugh, born on September 7, 1876, in Brooklyn, New York, was an American writer known for his extensive works aimed at children and young adults. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, though it s unclear whether he graduated. Fitzhugh married Harriet Lloyd LePorte on July 13, 1900, in Kingston, Massachusetts. His first known work, The Goldenrod Story Book, was published in 1906. Fitzhugh is best known for his series centered around Boy Scouting, set in the fictional town of Bridgeboro, New Jersey, which was inspired by his hometown of Hackensack, New Jersey. His most notable characters include Tom Slade, Pee-Wee Harris, Roy Blakeley, and Westy Martin, who each had their own series of books. Fitzhugh wrote nearly 100 books, with around 70 published by Grosset & Dunlap, many of which were part of five different series, including Buddy Books for Boys, featuring various stories of scouting adventures. His works remain a beloved part of children s literature, capturing the excitement and challenges of boyhood and scouting life.