
* Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award *
In this award-winning story, two classmates set out to create affordable toothpaste and become accidental millionaires Sixth-grader Rufus Mayflower is betting that he can make a whole gallon of toothpaste for the...

* Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award * In this award-winning story, two classmates set out to create affordable toothpaste and become accidental millionaires Sixth-grader Rufus Mayflower is betting that he can make a whole gallon of toothpaste for the same price as...


Twelve-year-old Rufus Mayflower is a genius at figuring things out. The young African-American boy can draw a map to almost anywhere in Cleveland, make a pattern for saddlebags, and calculate to the penny how much money a project will need. He also has a good sense of what things...







Rufus, a sixth-grader, succeeds in business without really trying when he develops and markets his own toothpaste. Merrill's idealistic construct of how to succeed in business without really trying functions both as a light story and as an explication of free enterprise mechanics...


