Leroy Ninker saddles up

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Title:

Leroy Ninker saddles up

Author:

DiCamillo, Kate, author.

Morey, Arthur, narrator.

Series:

Tales from Deckawoo Drive ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Yippie-i-oh! Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground, rescue the horse of his heart, and lasso loneliness for good? Join Leroy, Maybelline, and a cast of familiar characters--Stella, Frank, Mrs. Watson, and everyone's favorite porcine wonder, Mercy--for some hilarious and heartfelt horsing around on Deckawoo Drive.

Audience:

K-3.

General Note:

Compact disc.

Duration: 1:00:00.

Edition:

Unabridged.

Physical Description:

1 sound disc (1 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Audiobooks.

Subject Term:

Horses -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Morey, Arthur,

Publisher:

Random House/Listening Library,

Publication Date:

2014

ISBN:

9780804122245

9780804122221

Publication Information:

New York : Random House/Listening Library, [2014]

Call Number:

CDB J DICAMILLO

Holds: Copies:

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Yippie-i-oh Saddle up for the first in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from Kate DiCamillo's New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson books.

Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground, rescue the horse of his heart, and lasso loneliness for good? Join Leroy, Maybelline, and a cast of familiar characters--Stella, Frank, Mrs. Watson, and everyone's favorite porcine wonder, Mercy--for some hilarious and heartfelt horsing around on Deckawoo Drive.

Author Notes

Kate DiCamillo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 25, 1964. She received an English degree from the University of Florida. At the age of thirty, she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota and worked for a book warehouse on the children's floor. After working there for four and a half years, she fell in love with children's books and began writing. DiCamillo wrote the 2001 Newbery-honor book, Because of Winn-Dixie, which was adapted into a film in 2005. In 2004, she won the Newbery Medal for The Tale of Despereaux, which was also adapted into a movie in 2008, and for Flora and Ulysses in 2013. Her other works include the Mercy Watson series, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and The Magician's Elephant. She was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress for the term 2014-2015.

Kate's title, Raymie Nightingale, mde the New York Times bestseller list in 2016.

Reviews (1)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 1-4-Leroy Ninker, operator of the Bijou Drive-in Theater concession stand, is a little man with big dreams. This reformed toaster thief has set his sights on becoming a cowboy, and he has a great start: a lasso, boots, and a hat. However, real cowboys ride horses. Responding to a local advertisement, Leroy sets off with grandiose ideas of procuring a majestic steed that he will name Tornado. Instead, he gets an independent-minded, spaghetti-eating, four-toothed horse named Maybelline. When a nighttime thunderstorm spooks Maybelline into skittish gallop and she takes off, a bootless Leroy races through town in search of his beloved equine friend, only to find her calmly gazing into the window of a buttered toast-loving pig's home. DiCamillo (Flora and Ulysses) is certain to please her "Mercy Watson" fans with this first title in the new spin-off series. Arthur Morey's narration is spot-on, especially Leroy's lazy Southern drawl. The Roy Rogers-style music is an added bonus. Yippee-ki-yay!-Cheryl Preisendorfer, Twinsburg City Schools, OH (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.