Item
The Hare and the Tortoise and The Tortoise and the Hare/La Liebre y la Tortuga and La Tortuga y la Liebre.
- Title
- en_US The Hare and the Tortoise and The Tortoise and the Hare/La Liebre y la Tortuga and La Tortuga y la Liebre.
- Description
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Spanish
- en_US William Pene Du Bois and Lee Po
- Creator
- en_US Lee, Po See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Du Bois, William Pene
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:23:48Z
- en_US 1991-09
- en_US 1972
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:23:48Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1972
- Abstract
- en_US One of the most imaginative books I have found in a while, sitting on the floor of a wonderful basement full of kids' books. Barbara Yoffee, who showed me many books, rejoiced with me in my very own find. Bilingual on each page, with delightful and witty facing illustrations. Two stories. The first is the traditional Aesopic tale with additions. The prize is a six-course dinner at The Bird & Bottle. The male hare does not sleep but stops and joins in at a hog-calling contest where hogs do the calling. The hare laughs at the rain-dance of some Indians, but a downpour carries the tortoise down a gutter to the sea, the finish line. The female tortoise, who wears a great bathing cap, consoles the hare and enjoys the six courses. The second story has the queen of all fish suffering from a hook, surrounded by doctor and nurse fish. The tortoise volunteers hare's liver as a remedy, and soon the story plays the old folktale motif of It's so valuable that I left it at home. Let me go back and get it. The hare no longer goes anywhere near the tortoise.
- Identifier
- en_US 1049 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Doubleday
- en_US Garden City, NY
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.D8 Har 1972 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop and others 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