My library had rather a lot of Lawson, actually-- I read it right after Ben and Me and right before Rabbit Hill, if I remember correctly.
The first Lawson I can remember reading—or remember now, at any rate—was The Great Wheel (1957), about an Irish immigrant who comes to work on the Ferris wheel at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. There's a Cockney guy on their crew who has a habit of singing, very badly, songs I recognized from other sources, but had rarely at that point heard anyone sing. I still haven't heard anyone sing "Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?" now that I think of it. I'll bet I can ask teenybuffalo.
Though I didn't realize until just now looking it up on Wikipedia that the person who wrote those also wrote Mr. Popper's Penguins...
I think he just illustrated that one. He was crazily prolific.
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The first Lawson I can remember reading—or remember now, at any rate—was The Great Wheel (1957), about an Irish immigrant who comes to work on the Ferris wheel at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. There's a Cockney guy on their crew who has a habit of singing, very badly, songs I recognized from other sources, but had rarely at that point heard anyone sing. I still haven't heard anyone sing "Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?" now that I think of it. I'll bet I can ask
Though I didn't realize until just now looking it up on Wikipedia that the person who wrote those also wrote Mr. Popper's Penguins...
I think he just illustrated that one. He was crazily prolific.