Wise & Otherwise: Fables, Myths, Fairy Tales and Other Jolly Nonsense

Title

en_US Wise & Otherwise: Fables, Myths, Fairy Tales and Other Jolly Nonsense

Description

en_US First edition

en_US Elmer Otte

Creator

en_US Otte, Elmer See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:59:31Z

en_US 2010-03

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:59:31Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US The title continues Fun To Be A Kid Again. The back cover aptly describes the eleven stories here as Delightful, Whimsical Award-Winning Fairy Tales To Charm Any Kid Of Any Lively Age. Of Otte it says He sees and writes this silly and sweet, all mixed up with the naughty and neat. I read the first two stories. Otte's special gift, I believe, lies in playing with words. His first tale -- Walter Walter From Fiddle, D.D. -- is a good one of unexpected reversal in a small town in Switzerland. The town lazybones is snookered by a clever grandpa into leading the great parade of local fiddlers with his fifenflute. The fun for me comes in expressions along the way, like Cousin George across the gorge, Uncle Dunkel with his yellow cello, and dimple dumplings popular throughout Dinkelhorn. The story's last sentence climaxes with the hero, Walter Walter, playing ever-so-joyfully, on his what-does-it-matter horn (6). The second, A Golden Zipper For A Kangaroo's Pouch, climaxes, I believe, when the kangaroos learn that Christopher, who had wiggled out of a baby-sitting kangaroo's too-loose pouch, had since become the top kangaroo at the Kalamazoo Zoo (11).

Identifier

en_US 9780964862845 (hardcover)

en_US 6859 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82165

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Folklore House

en_US Appleton, WI

Subject

en_US PS3565.T747 W58 1995 See all items with this value

en_US Elmer Otte See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole