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A tale of tulips, a tale of onions

by David Francis Birchman · 1994

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Amid the tulipomania craze in seventeenth-century Holland, gardener Ed Vard Grooter's love of tulips and sea captain Drooter Van Zooter's love of onions almost bring them to blows.

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humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisNetherlandsNetherlandsMore like thisLess of this
Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens

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