A Bundle of Sticks

Title

en_US A Bundle of Sticks

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Second printing

en_US Retold by Katherine Evans

Creator

en_US Evans, Katherine See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Evans, Katherine

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:09Z

en_US 1999-06

en_US 1966

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 1962

Abstract

en_US Original copyright was apparently 1962. Once again Katherine Evans uses a crayon-like style, alternating black-and-white and colored spreads. Here the fable is set in a Persian village, where a rugmaker has three sons. The three sons take on differing roles in the making of fine rugs: making patterns, mixing dyes, and weaving. Soon a contest is announced to make the finest rug for a royal wedding, with a big prize for the winner. The boys quarrel, each wanting to win the prize alone. And so they waste five of the six months allotted for making a rug. Then the father has them break individual sticks first--an unusual move for this fable. Then he challenges them with the bundle. The sons work together, and of course they win the prize. In a nice touch, the last page has a bundle of sticks hanging from a peg over their shop. The moral is included by saying that if you ask a brother, he will tell you Alone, each one is weak,/Together we are strong. This book was formerly property of Edison School in Walla Walla. The only bad news about finding this book is that the pre-title-page lists four other fables retold by Katherine Evans, and I have only one of them!

Identifier

en_US 3189 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78589

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Albert Whitman & Company

en_US Chicago, IL

Subject

en_US PZ7.E888 Bu 1962 See all items with this value

en_US Book containing one fable See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole