The Money We'll Save

written & illustrated by Brock Cole

Margaret Ferguson Books

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When Pa brings a turkey poult home to fatten for Christmas dinner, he assures Ma that it will be no trouble since it can live in a box by the stove and eat table scraps--and just think of the money we'll save! But it's not quite so simple to raise a turkey in a tiny flat in a nineteenth-century New York City tenement. Can Pa and the children manage the willful and growing Alfred and keep the neighbors happy until Christmas? Pa finds a solution for every difficulty--until he encounters one that threatens to ruin Christmas completely. How the family joins together to solve this last difficulty makes for a very funny and satisfying holiday story.

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“When Pa brings home a young turkey to fatten up for Christmas dinner, chaos follows in Cole's picture book tale about a penny-pinching family squeezed into a 19th century New York City tenement.”--Sacramento Bee
 
"...all ends well in this humorous, wholesome story about tightened straits, with its not-too-vinegary perspective on how the other half celebrates." --NYTimes.com  
 
“This could easily be incorporated into a class history lesson or simply enjoyed as a unique and humorous holiday story.” --BCCB

“Nothing is sumptuous for the 19th-century tenement-dwelling family at the heart of Brock Cole's endearing picture book ‘The Money We'll Save’ (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 40 pages, $16.99)…With Mr. Cole's watercolor-filled wobbly line drawings, we see the family—and soon their neighbors—struggling to accommodate the growing bird. Not a penny is saved, of course, but in the end the bird offers enrichment of a charmingly different sort.” --Wall Street Journal

“Cole’s buoyant watercolors capture the busy chaos and warm homeyness of family life plus turkey in this folksy journey into a different time.” --Booklist
 
“Cole’s blithe illustrations, comfortably crowded with his amusing, expressive characters, set this entertaining holiday story in nineteenth-century New York City.” --Horn Book Magazine, starred review
 
“…a holiday story as humorous as it is touching.” --Publishers Weekly
 
“Cole’s humorous illustrations bring to life the crowded conditions in a 19th-century New York tenement building; the characters are raggedy and poor, but full of spirit and good will.” --School Library Journal

“When Pa brings home a turkey poult to raise for Christmas dinner, hilarious complications ensue in this heartwarming family story set in 19th-century New York City.” --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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written & illustrated by Brock Cole

Brock Cole is the author/illustrator of many picture books and young adult novels. He lives in Buffalo, New York.

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The Money We'll Save
written & illustrated by Brock Cole

Hardcover

Hardcover
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Margaret Ferguson Books
October 2011
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374350116
ISBN10: 0374350116
Picture Book
8 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches, 40 pages, Full-color illustrations throughout
Age Range: 4 to 8
Grade Range: p to 3
$16.99
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Margaret Ferguson Books
October 2011
Kindle Format 8
ISBN: 9781466810853
ISBN10: 1466810858
eBook Picture Book - Amazon40 pages, full color throughout
Age Range: 4 to 8
Grade Range: p to 3
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