I have to confess that Tomi Ungerer's work has not been on my radar. A few weeks ago I bought this book at a thrift store when the offbeat title caught my attention. I had no idea that Ungerer has a following and that his 80th birthday was coming up. This week it seemed that book blogs everywhere were posting about Tomi Ungerer and then I remembered the book and dug it out of my pile of to be posted's.
The story starts with Mr. Mellops and sons Ferdinand, Casimir, Felix and Isidor going on a bike ride. Father becomes suspicious that there may be oil in the area after tasting water from a brook. This leads to research, the building of a derrick and mayhem. Not your standard children's picture book, but very entertaining.
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Yay!