The Flimflam Man (Sunburst Book)

On a scorching July day in 1950 a fabulous fat man drives into Wetumka Oklahoma. F. Bam Morrison is selling tickets to Bohns United Circus Shows and the townspeople are buying―all that is except ol man Swank who says F. Bam Morrison is a two-faced weasel. Smitten with Morrison ten-year-old Bobbie Jo Hailey―and mean Clara Jean Knox whom she befriends―unwittingly joins the effort to bamboozle Wetumka. When Bobbie Jo realizes her mistake Morrison is on his way out of town leaving her disappointed but intact―and greatly enriched by her relationship with the flimflam man. . Lovingly illustrated by Eileen Christelow Darleen Bailey Beards delightful story is based on a real episode in Wetumkas history still celebrated annually as Sucker Day!