What a beautiful world!. Town kids -- Skippy -- Toilet paper -- Cedar chest -- Lost in the woods -- What the youngest boy learned listening to men talk -- Finding your own faucet -- Skippy's tail -- Betsy's calf -- Hide-and-seek -- The argument -- Garbage -- Matches -- The safety pin -- The little chicken -- The dream -- Becoming a better boy -- Being old enough -- Cow pies -- Knuckle cracking -- Wild steers -- Fat boy -- Variety of opportunities -- Plowed field -- Playground talk -- What was going on? -- Chicken salad crunchies -- Damaged people -- Oatmeal and raspberries -- Spare change -- Dehorning and castrating -- Learning a new word -- Just practice -- The lilac tree -- Pigeons -- The salebarn -- Strawstacks -- Simonize -- No way! -- Noisy room -- Eyes -- Thinking Skippy to do things -- The grinners -- More matches -- It's coming! -- Hooking cars -- Statue of Liberty -- The day Skippy died -- At the funeral for the man who kept cigars in his cap -- What a beautiful world!.
Summary:
"Jim Heynen's stories about unnamed farm boys first appeared many years ago with The Man Who Kept Cigars in His Cap. Several collections of the boy stories have been published since then and have been models in the short-short or prose poem form now used by many other writers. This is the first collection to focus on the youngest boy, a character who can be a dreamer one minute, a trouble-maker the next, and a problem-solver the next. The youngest boy's charm is in his unpredictability."
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