You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fables to Read Together

Title

en_US You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fables to Read Together

en_US Megan Tingley Books

Description

en_US First paperback edition

en_US By Mary Ann Hoberman

Creator

en_US Hoberman, Mary Ann See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Emberley, Michael

Date

2016-01-25T19:07:43Z

en_US 2013-07

en_US 2013

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:07:43Z

Date Issued

en_US 2013

Abstract

en_US I thought I was buying a second copy of a book already in the collection. That is true, but there is a curious shift in the format of the cover and title-page. This edition emphasizes the second half of that title. Has perhaps more of a series of You Read to Me, I'll Read to You grown up in the meantime? Let me repeat what I wrote about the 2010 hardbound first edition. The format of this book uses colors to indicate alternating readers within its thirteen fables. As the introduction proclaims, You take one voice, I, the other; then we read to one another. The moral is in a different color and is to be proclaimed chorally. Before and alongside that introduction, we see two characters dressing up in seven steps as TM and CM. In the first fable, TH, we notice that the alternating characters not only have different colored texts, but the texts rhyme and are set into different columns. With almost every pair of statements comes a strong cartoon of the specific action, so that in TH there are eight different scenes presenting the action. In TH, the two racers ride bicycles -- and of course wear helmets! BW has the shepherd boy crying out Wolf! every day. His sheep read books, play cards, and ride bicycles. The townsfolk are in Fitzpatrick's having a beer -- and stay there finally on the catastrophic day. City Mouse is a female flapper (14). The cow in DM drives a tractor. In FG, three grapes are little purple people with voices (18-19). When you cannot have a share,/Don't pretend you do not care. Particularly well done for children is The Peacock and the Crane (20-21): good looks are not everything. SW involves more creative visualizing (24-25) even though the bet is poorly conceived. Make him take off his warm coat if you can. In GA, the ant drives a tractor. The ending of GA seems to me unresolved. The ants seem to come out with food for the grasshopper and to dance around his fire. There is no suggestion in the text that they help him. The last words from one of them are Don't bother me! In LM, the mouse deliberately tickles the lion's nose (30-31). This book represents a great way to experience fables!

Identifier

en_US 9780316218474

en_US 9440 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79846

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Little, Brown and Company

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.H624 You 2013 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole