About The Happy Yellow Car
When Betty Grunt's father comes home one day in a glamorous yellow car, her family--from Gretel to Grant to Garth--is thrown into a tizzy. After all, there's a depression on, and who can even afford gasoline?
But Betty has more important things to worry about: Her sixth-grade class has elected her Pork-Fry Queen, and she must somehow come up with a dollar for flowers or else forfeit the title.
Could the answer to her problem lie in a rumor of hidden treasure on the family farm?
And if the legend is true, can she find it before the rest of her kith and kind do?
Reviews
- "Horvath's sharp, ingenious country-bumpkin
humor is sheer delight, though it will be the more
sophisticated readers who'll appreciate the roots
from which it's derived. Her mere wisp of a plot
gets its zing from the cornball characters (even
Betty takes a turn at being a buffoon), and from
the slapstick family dynamics that snare readers
on the very first page and keep 'em chuckling till
the end".
Stephanie Zvirin Copyright© 1994, American Library Association. All rights reserved