The Fox and the Rooster & Other Tales

Title

en_US The Fox and the Rooster & Other Tales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First American edition

en_US Maggie Pearson

Creator

en_US Pearson, Maggie See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Moss, Joanne

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:01Z

en_US 2014-06

en_US 1997

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 1997

Abstract

en_US A book published in Waukesha! What a find! Originally published in 1997 by Magi Publications in London. There are, I believe, two fables among the fourteen stories here. The only other story that I happen to recognize is Pied Piper. The two I know as fables are Stone Soup (53) and the title-story, The Fox and the Rooster (69). A nice visual feature of the book is the pictorial headers and footers that change with each story. The illustration for Pied Piper (24) is excellent: the mice swarm together before viewer's eyes! The maker of stone soup is a storyteller, and he finds the right stone in the village itself. At the end of it all, he fishes out the stone and throws it away and declares I don't need that and I never did. When they ask what story he told, he tells them Stone soup! The title-story begins with Partlet, not Chanticleer, having nightmares about Chanticleer's being eaten by a fox. Does not the strong illustration on 71 get the spatial relationship between Renard and Chanticleer wrong? Reynard here appeals to the pride of Chanticleer: But best of all I love the song you sing to wake the world each morning. The temptation by Renard here does not to include standing on tiptoe and closing one's eyes until it comes to comparing Chanticleer to his father. Once Chanticleer is taken by Renard, it is here a farmer that takes after the thief. Chanticleer tries various ways to get Renard to open his mouth, including asking if this is the way that Renard killed Chanticleer's father, but they fail. In the end, the traditional appeal works, for Chanticleer advises Renard to tell the old farmer to give up because he has been beaten. Never close your eyes when they should be open, and never open your mouth when it should be shut!

Identifier

en_US 9781888444179

en_US 10129 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76117

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Little Tiger Press

en_US Waukesha, WI

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.P325 Fox 1997 See all items with this value

en_US Collection See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole