By the Great Horn Spoon!
| By The Great Horned Spoon! | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Sid Fleischman |
| Original title | By the Great Horn Spoon! |
| Translator | None |
| Illustrator | Eric von Schmidt |
| Cover artist | Mike Winner |
| Country | United States |
| Language | spanish and english |
| Series | None |
| Genre(s) | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Greenwillow Books |
| Publication date | 1963 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 193 |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | None |
| Followed by | None |
Summary
By The Great Horn Spoon! is a children's novel by '''Sid Fleischman''', published in 1965. This story takes place in the California Gold Rush. The main characters of the book are Praiseworthy, a butler, and Jack, a twelve-year old boy who lived with his Aunt Arabella since his parents died and met Praiseworthy who head to California to search for gold after Jack's Aunt Arabella loses all her money. They are stowaways on a ship, The Lady Wilma, and uncover the villain on the ship that stole their money for tickets. Along the way, they share a cabin with people like Dr. Buckbee, the horse doctor with the peg leg or Mountain Jim, a big guy who saves a pig from the cook. When they reach San Francisco, they head for the gold mines, but meet other villains (including the one they unmasked on the ship whose name was Cut-'Eye Higgins) but also nice miners, such as Pitch-Pine Billy and Jimmie-from-Town and others.
This book was turned into a movie called The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin by Disney, who changed the name of the butler character(Praiseworthy), as well as many other components of the storyline and plot.
