https://www.bookologymagazine.com/two-for-the-show/a-few-tall-tales-from-the-land-of-rampaging-zucchini Children's Literature Tue, 09 Mar 2021 03:44:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/two-for-the-show/a-few-tall-tales-from-the-land-of-rampaging-zucchini#comment-797 Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:09:28 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=9699#comment-797 Bert Dow was always one of my favorites. AND speaking of exaggeration: my own rampaging zucchini (thanks, Phyllis!) is competing with Polar Bear pumpkins to see which plants can take over the garden, pull down the fence, and fill up the rest of the yard. As Captain Haddock says, in the Tintin comics: “Thunderin Typhoons!” Of course I love it that you quote Ellen Levine (“What’s against it?”); she would have loved this column.

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