Giant Treasury of Brer Rabbit

Title

en_US Giant Treasury of Brer Rabbit

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Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Joel Chandler Harris and Anne Hessey

Creator

en_US Harris, Joel Chandler See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Rountree, Harry

Date

2016-04-20T15:51:20Z

2015-07

1991

Date Available

2016-04-20T15:51:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 1991

Abstract

en_US This book replicates internally another book in the collection. Where that was a second printing, this is a fifth. The covers have changed from reproductions of "Spilled Milk Among the Rabbits" (front) and "I See You, Brer Fox" (back) to yellow and white stripes as background for a partial-scene rendition of Brer Rabbit standing on a stump (front) and Brer Rabbit carrying a sack (back). The obverse of the title-page no longer mentions "Outlet Books." The book's paper has changed from cream to white. There is no longer a cover designer as well as a book designer. Let me include comments from that edition. Twenty-four stories from Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings. For me the illustrations are the strong feature of this book. Rountree's full-page colored illustrations are good; Bull's smaller black-and-white line-drawings are even better. Half of them here are very well colored and sharply reproduced. The two artists are coordinated in their approach, e.g., to dress, so that their respective illustrations fit together. The final illustration on 89 cleverly blows up and colors a detail from that on 75. From the versions, a reader will miss not only the original dialect but also the figures of both Uncle Remus and the boy. The stories are regularly well tied in to those just preceding. The introduction notes that these stories "deal with tricks for the sake of trickery, with outsmarting the other fellow, and with what happens when a creature succumbs to temptation too greedily for his own good. You'll learn strategies for winning both fairly and foully; you won't find a moral at the end of each story, but you can find plenty to discuss and think about" (5). The TH race here is between Brer Rabbit and five terrapins (mother, father, and three children) located at the start, the finish, and the mile-posts.

Identifier

en_US 10647 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/85430

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

Derrydale

NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.H44Gi 1991 See all items with this value

Harris See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole