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Beard, Darleen Bailey Christelow, Eileen, Illustrator

The Flimflam Man

85 pp. | Farrar | January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-374-32346-1
(2) 4-6 Ten-year-old Bobbie Jo Hailey, who stutters, admires the smooth-talking stranger who comes to her small town, until she learns he's a "flimflam man" who has sold the town tickets to a fictitious traveling circus. Based on the actual 1950 event that spawned the Wetumka, Oklahoma, annual Sucker Day Festival, the narrative tells a rousing good tale of old-fashioned con artistry, illustrated with lighthearted drawings.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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