Grandpa's Hal-la-loo-ya Hambone!
Grandpa's Hal-la-loo-ya Hambone!
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Cinco Puntos Press
Annotation: When Grandpa's false teeth fall down a well, a recycled hambone which has flavored the bean dinners of many families in his poor farm community, is used to retrieve his dentures.
 
Reviews: 2
Catalog Number: #154454
Format: Perma-Bound Edition
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Copyright Date: 2016
Edition Date: 2016 Release Date: 12/06/16
Illustrator: Castro, Antonio,
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: Publisher: 1-941026-55-9 Perma-Bound: 0-7804-0369-X
ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-1-941026-55-7 Perma-Bound: 978-0-7804-0369-7
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2016014778
Dimensions: 28 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
Horn Book (Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2017)

Only beans grow on the poor Hayes family's farm, so they eat nothing but. When the father buys a large hambone, it's used repeatedly by the family and their neighbors to flavor their beans, and it comes in handy when Grandpa loses his teeth in the well. Caricature illustrations (somewhat garishly) play up the humor in this homey, Southwest-flavored tall tale.

Kirkus Reviews

A tall country tale involving dentures, beans, and an amazing hambone. Life on a farm can be hard. One year, the soil is so unforgiving that all the family can grow is beans. Dad makes it work by packing them in sacks and taking them far away to sell. Still, all he can buy with the money he earns is a big hambone, just what's needed to flavor the family's beans for dinner. Grandpa loves this dinner so much he declares an enthusiastic "HAL-LA-LOO-YA!" Meanwhile, the narrator's "economical" mom saves the hambone for next week's dinner. News spreads to the neighbors, who borrow this splendid hambone. Now the hambone is away from the family for two or three days at a time, but Grandpa "would always manage to wrangle an invitation to dinner." One day, Mrs. McIvey drops by to borrow the hambone to make a nice supper after her daughter's wedding; of course she invites Grandpa. He rushes to the well to wash his face and sneezes, sending his dentures down into the darkness. Quick-thinking brother Sam ties the hambone to a fishing line and lowers it, to be clamped on tight by the dentures, which "had grown…used to eating beans flavored with that hambone." Alas, the line snaps, but all is not lost—now the neighbors come by for some of that ham-flavored well water. Storyteller Hayes spins his yarn with aplomb, punctuating it with the titular exclamation. Castro L.'s illustrations suggest Norman Rockwell, depicting a largely white rural Southwest community. Tongue-in-cheek fun. (Picture book. 7-10)

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Kirkus Reviews
Word Count: 1,256
Reading Level: 4.3
Interest Level: K-3
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.3 / points: 0.5 / quiz: 193431 / grade: Lower Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:4.2 / points:2.0 / quiz:Q70557
Lexile: AD790L
Guided Reading Level: P
Fountas & Pinnell: P

Kids today grow up knowing all about recycling. But when Joe Hayes was a kid, recycling hadn't been invented. Money was so tight for Joe's family that they had to be inventive about using and reusing everything. They didn't call it recycling, they called it making do. Joe says his family was dirt-poor. In fact, he says, they lived in a wide-open stretch of played-out land where even the dirt was broke, so impoverished that all anyone could manage to get out of it was beans. Beans and more beans, that's all folks grew and that's all folks ate. So imagine the family's delight when Joe's father turned up one day with a big fat hambone There was rejoicing all over the place, especially at the dinner table that night. Joe's mother was determined to make that bone last as long as she possibly could. As thrifty as she was, she would have done just that except the neighbors got wind of the bone's arrival. Being neighborly, she just had to share that bone. That's when this Tall Tale got even TALLER. Joe Hayes is such a stylish raconteur that kids can't resist listening to him. Like that recycled hambone, generations of kids have been passing that Hayes and his books around and around, the kids now squeezing as much joy out of him as their mothers and fathers did before them. Hayes lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but travels all over the Southwest telling his stories.


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