The Biggest Soap by Carole Lexa Schaefer (2004, Reinforced Hardcover) 
The Biggest Soap by Carole Lexa Schaefer (2004, Reinforced Hardcover)

 
The Biggest Soap by Carole Lexa Schaefer (2004, Reinforced Hardcover)

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2004-09-09
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0374306907
ISBN-13: 9780374306908
Product ID: EPID2856434
Description: This is the story of a little boy's adventures while procuring a chunk of soap for his mother on laundry day in a South Pacific island paradise. He encounters his sister and cleans her cut finger with the soap, uses the soap to help his ...
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Synopsis
This is the story of a little boy's adventures while procuring a chunk of soap for his mother on laundry day in a South Pacific island paradise. He encounters his sister and cleans her cut finger with the soap, uses the soap to help his carpenter uncle stop a window from squeaking, and gives his mud-covered brothers a piece of the soap before the mud hardens to the point that they can't move. When he returns to the family laundry and storytelling session at the washing pool, he turns his escapades into vivid tall tales involving ghosts and monsters and serpents. Stacey Dressen-McQueen's amazing acrylic, colored pencil, and oil pastel illustrations of the smiling islanders in their lovely environment are reminiscent of Gauguin.

When Kessy, who lives in the Truk Islands, is sent by his mother to buy laundry soap, he hurries back to listen to her storytelling, discovering that his own experience makes a good story too.

Details
Publication Date:2004-09-09
Illustrator:Stacey Dressen-McQueen

Size
Length:32 pages
Height:10.0 in
Width:10.0 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:14.4 oz

Publisher's Note
On laundry day on a South Pacific island, young Kessy is proud to go to the store to buy soap for his mother, and along the way he'll find plenty of adventures and surprises.

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