Item
When Birds Could Talk & Bats Could Sing: The Adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and Their Friends.
- Title
- en_US When Birds Could Talk & Bats Could Sing: The Adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and Their Friends.
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US First printing
- en_US Virginia Hamilton
- Creator
- en_US Hamilton, Virginia See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Moser, Barry
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:15:23Z
- en_US 1996-03
- en_US 1996
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:15:23Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1996
- Abstract
- en_US This is a lovely, charming book. The red cover is embossed with gilt feathers. Its frontispiece is a spectacular view of four birds with personality and strong attitudes. Its eight stories are told in mild dialect and have an etiological approach. Really cante fables containing some verse, they were first written down--and sometimes even created--by Martha Young. The stories touch on good traditional themes, as when wrens squabble over who owns a pumpkin too large for either of them to budge or when a young man wants to keep his dear, dying old horse from the buzzards. Moser's work is very strong. His birds all wear elegant hats! Beside the frontispiece, two of his best illustrations feature the bat with seven coats of feathers (10) and the conversation of Cardinal Red and Scarlet Red on a limb (52). An unsuspected treasure!
- Identifier
- en_US 590473727
- en_US 2387 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US The Blue Sky Press: Scholastic
- en_US New York
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.1.H154 St 1996 See all items with this value
- en_US Hamilton See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books