When Zachary Beaver Came To Town

The tale of a morbidly obese child who works as a sideshow freak, When Zachary Beaver Came To Town is a mature, sensitive, sad, and touching children’s novel by Kimberly Willis Holt. It won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, and was adapted into a movie starring Jonathan Lipnicki, Jane Krakowski, and Eric Stolz.