Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion : a true story

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"This wacky true tale of American ingenuity all started when John "Minnie" Moore built a mine in Idaho and sold it to Englishman Henry Miller. Then Henry married a local lass named Annie and built her a mansion, hence the "Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion." After Henry died and Annie was hoodwinked-- losing all but the mansion-- she and her son took to raising pigs in the yard, as some are wont to do. But the town wanted those pigs out. Who could have guessed that Annie and her crew would remove the whole mansion instead-- rolling it away slowly on logs-- while she and her son were still living in it?"-- From publisher's description.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Genre:

Picture books.

Personal Subject:

Miller, Annie, 1871-1941-Juvenile literature.

Subject Term:

Moving of buildings, bridges, etc. -- Juvenile literature.

Moving, Household -- Juvenile literature.

Dwellings -- Juvenile literature.

Mansions -- Juvenile literature.

Silver mines and mining -- Juvenile literature.

Geographic Term:

Minnie Moore Mine (Idaho) -- Juvenile literature.

Idaho -- Juvenile literature.

Author(s):

Sardà, Júlia,

Publisher:

Candlewick Press,

Publication Date:

2023

ISBN:

9781536215885

Publication Information:

Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023.

Call Number:

P EGGERS

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Summary

Author Dave Eggers and artist Júlia Sardà spin a quirky historical event into a whimsical and tall-ish true tale of American ingenuity.

Make way for history as only Dave Eggers could stage it. It all started when John "Minnie" Moore built a mine in Idaho and sold it to Englishman Henry Miller. Then Henry married a local lass named Annie and built her a mansion, hence the "Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion." After Henry died and Annie was hoodwinked--losing all but the mansion--she and her son took to raising pigs in the yard, as some are wont to do. But the town wanted those pigs out. Who could have guessed that Annie and her crew would remove the whole mansion instead--rolling it away slowly on logs--while she and her son were still living in it? Narrated with metafictional flair, this delightfully illustrated picture book is proof positive that nonfiction can be as lively and artful as any storybook.

Author Notes

Dave Eggers was born on March 12th, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts. His family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois when he was a child. Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, until his parents' deaths in 1991 and 1992. The loss left him responsible for his eight-year-old brother and later became the inspiration for his highly acclaimed memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Published in 2000, the memoir was nominated for a nonfiction Pulitzer the following year.

Eggers edits the popular "The Best American Nonrequired Reading" published annually. In 1998, he founded the independent publishing house, McSweeney's which publishes a variety of magazines and literary journals. Eggers has also opened several nonprofit writing centers for high school students across the United States.

Eggers has written several novels and his title, A Hologram for the King, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. His most recent work of fiction, entitled The Circle, was published in 2013. His recent nonfiction books are The Monk of Mokha (January 2018) and What Can a Citizen Do? (Illustrated by Shawn Harris)(September 2018).

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In an alliterative account of a late-19th-century event, Idaho workers relocate a Victorian-style mansion, rolling it four miles on logs while its inhabitants live their lives uninterrupted. Eggers (We Became Jaguars) sets the stage with exuberant editorializing ("Like all of the best stories, this takes place in Idaho"), detailing how a dog's finding silver in Idaho led to the establishment of the Minnie Moore Mine, later bought by Henry Miller of England ("We can assume that the mine was then known as Miller's Minnie Moore Mine"). Bringing "a bit of Old World civility to the Old West," Miller then built his wife, Annie, a house--the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion. After Miller died and Annie lost her fortune, the town would not allow her to raise pigs, leading to the move. Working digitally in shades of charcoal, orange, and sienna, Sardà (The Queen in the Cave) captures a stark, angular landscape alongside stylized individuals whose skin reflects the white of the page. Without contextualizing colonial settlement, this moniker-centric celebration of a locale's personalities and projects is at its best when explaining the move's logistical details. Ages 4--8. (June)