Item
The Cricket and the Mole and other stories
- Title
- en_US The Cricket and the Mole and other stories
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Janosch. Translated by Anthea Bell
- Creator
- en_US Bell, Anthea See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Janosch
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:03:00Z
- en_US 2000-08
- en_US 1983
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:03:00Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1983
- Abstract
- en_US Original edition ©1982 by Beltz Verlag, Weinheim, West Germany. The original title was Liebe Grille, spiel mir was. Here again in this little book (4½ x 6½) Janosch plays with stories. The first works directly off of a fable motif from GA. The cricket, having played her fiddle all summer, goes to several animals in winter to ask if she can stay for a while. They refuse. The mole accepts her, and they work out a very happy life together--even, apparently, in bed! The Goose Opera shows the geese getting the better of the fox. To the cold geese he proclaims that he will warm them up so well that they will never feel the cold again. They lead him on a chase and then dance with him until he dies exhausted. They even skin him and use the skin to make fur coats and scarves. They thus make his promise come true! Jack the Lion in rhyme is very simple and really not a story. Is he relieving himself behind the house on 38? Robinson Hare tells of a young hare who leaves his father, becomes a seaman, escapes pirates, and lives alone on an island until he meets a black Hare Friday. Sailors come to the island, capture him, and then recognize that he is a hare like them and so take him back to his father. The cover illustration, which also serves as the first in the first story, is excellent. I do not know what kind of bugs or beasts are dancing, but they are into it!
- Identifier
- en_US 862640431
- en_US 4157 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Andersen Press Ltd
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PZ7.J244 Cr 1983 See all items with this value
- en_US Janosch See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books