Lapin Plays Possum: Trickster Tales from the Louisiana Bayou

Title

en_US Lapin Plays Possum: Trickster Tales from the Louisiana Bayou

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Adapted by Sharon Arms Doucet

Creator

en_US Doucet, Sharon Arms See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Cook, Scott

Date

2016-01-25T15:46:26Z

en_US 2013-08

en_US 2002

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:46:26Z

Date Issued

en_US 2002

Abstract

en_US Here are three well-told Brer Rabbit tales with a Bayou sauciness: Bouki over a Barrel; Lapin Plays Possum; and Lapin Tangles with 'Tee Tar Bébé. The obverse of the title-page gives a helpful glossary that draws nicely on Wolof and French and plenty of features of Louisiana culture. Each story pits Lapin against Bouki the hyena. In the first, Lapin claims that he is called away to one baptism after another, and the children get the names Commencé, Moitié, and Tout Fini. The second story features first the trickery of taking only the top or the bottom or the middle of the crop. In each case Lapin plants according to the portion he will be getting in the harvest. The second half of this story concerns the possum maneuver that, in this version, has Lapin stealing Bouki's cart. In the third story, Lapin starts his encounter with her by kissing the female tar baby and gets stuck by his mouth first. The partial-page illustrations are lively. The last illustration before the author's note may catch the spirit of Compère Lapin particularly well as he goes jaunting off with two buckets, surely full of something yummy (62). Good stuff!

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 4.98

en_US 9780374343286

en_US 9663 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76477

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux,

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.D75 Lap 2002 See all items with this value

en_US Brer Rabbit See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole