| By The Great Horned Spoon! | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Sid Fleischman |
| Country | United States |
| Language | spanish and english |
| Genre(s) | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Greenwillow Books |
| Publication date | 1963 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 193 |
| ISBN | NA |
| Followed by | Jack's Gold |
By The Great Horn Spoon! is a children's novel by Sid Fleischman, published in 1965. This story takes place in the California Gold Rush. The main characters of the book are Praiseworthy, a butler, and Jack, a twelve-year old boy who head to California to search for gold after Jack's Aunt Arabella loses all her money. They are stow-aways on a ship, and uncover a villain on the ship. When they reach San Francisco, they head for the gold mines, but meet villains (including the one they unmasked on the ship) but also nice miners, such as Pitch Pine Billy.
This book was turned into a movie called The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin by Disney, who changed the name of the butler character but otherwise stayed reasonably faithful to the original idea.