The Tortoise or the Hare

Title

The Tortoise or the Hare

en_US Books for Young Readers: A Paula Wiseman Book

Description

First paperback printing

Toni Morrison & Slade Morrison

Creator

Morrison, Toni See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Cepeda, Joe

Date

2016-04-20T15:51:20Z

2015-07

2014

Date Available

2016-04-20T15:51:20Z

Date Issued

2014

Abstract

en_US The book offers in paperback form the 2010 hardbound book from the same publisher. I will include comments I made there. About 2003, Toni and Slade Morrison did three books of fables for Scribner's, all beginning with the question "Who's Got Game?" Their artist in all three of those was Pascal LeMaitre. Now here is a new offering with a different artist and publisher. Jimi Hare cannot help himself. He is fast! He is known as a show-off and travels alone. Jamey Tortoise cannot help himself in a different way: he is smarter than everyone else. He studies alone. The newspaper announces a contest, a race whose winner gets a golden crown. Jimi and Jamey both sign up. Jamey calls the newspaper and asks which story interests the paper more: the winner who loses or the loser who wins. The fox reporter loves both stories and says so. Jimi asks the reporter what gets more attention: the largest crowd and or the loudest cheers. The answer is the same. When the race starts, Jamey takes off fast and Jimi goes straight to the bus stop. During the day he travels on bus, train, boat, and plane. Jimi entertains the crowd all day with stunts. Jimi came in first, Jamey second. (There seem to be only these two contestants.) Since the reporter knew the story of the tortoise and hare, she had expected the opposite. So her headline was "Winner loses! Loser wins!" Jimi says he won because he has the crown. Jamey says he won because he has the headline. The last page shows them shaking hands and declares "It's not the race. It's not who wins. It's when the runners become good friends." This is a lively and engaging presentation, if a bit far-fetched.

Identifier

10646 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/85429

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Simon & Schuster

NY

Subject

en_US PS3563.O8749T6 2014 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole