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Subject: What was this kids story?
In third or fourth grade (early 80s) there was a story in Reading class that I really liked, but now I can't find it. I don't remember the title, but it was about a boy who brought the town together by singing a rhyme about donut holes that ended with:
"...any whole hole with a hole bitten in it is a wholey whole hole, and it just plain isn't."
He walked down the street singing it, and the townspeople followed him and forgot about whatever their problem was in the story.
I'd like to get the title, or even just more of the rhyme. Does anybody remember this?
Subject: Re: What was this kids story?
ok i totally remember this book, but i can't think of the name. I remember that it had a bunch of different stories about the kid and the townspeople. If anyone knows anything about this book please help, it's driving me CRAZY!!:)
Subject: Re: What was this kids story?
Does anyone remember anything about this book? Please help!! :'(
Subject: Re: What was this kids story?
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Does anyone remember anything about this book? Please help!! :'(
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I found my old fourth-grade reading book when my dad was going through some old stuff (yes, I kept it :) ).
The story is called "Pie and Punch and You-Know-Whats" by Robert McCloskey. According to the acknowledgements it's adapted from McCloskey's Centerburg Tales, published by The Viking Press in 1951.
Did anyone else use the same reading book? It was called Freedom's Ground and was Level 14 in the Holt Basic Reading System. Our schools used them from the late 70s to the mid-80s (maybe even later). It had the above story, along with "The Black Pearl", "Alvin and the Secret Code", "One for the Univac" and "The Adventures of Paul Bunyan".