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Synopsis
DeWayne is the only one in first grade who has a great-grandmother. Ma Minnie spends her days in a rolling chair now because her legs are worn out, but when DeWayne gets old enough to drive, he plans to take her to school for show-and-tell. For now, he waits until she's in the mood for storytelling and lets her know he sure would enjoy hearing about Mr. Fat--like the time he ran off from home and built himself trouble in a sugarcane house. Mr. Fat is a trickster and a mystery--and no one can tell these six stories better than Ma Minnie.
Children's Literature
In these six delightful tales, posthumously published, the amazing Mr. Fat survives all types of troubles in the antebellum and reconstruction south. Framed as stories that Ma Minnie tells her great grandson, six-year-old DeWayne, Mr. Fat always saves the day-whether he is preventing his talking mule from committing suicide, working as a tap dancer in the circus, trying to build a house out of sugarcane, or escaping from his slave-owners and later prison. Readers of all ages will enjoy the escapades of the hapless Mr. Fat.