Creature Features

Title

en_US Creature Features

Description

en_US Peter Gray

Creator

en_US Gray, Peter See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Gray, Peter

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:20Z

en_US 2010-12

en_US 2003

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 2003

Abstract

en_US This large-format (8½ x 11) paperback book presents fourteen creatures through rhyming couplets and line-drawings. The rhymes sometimes groan, but the word-plays can be fun. Here is a good example from The Gnu and the Gnat: When the gnat gnaws, the gnu gnarls and gnashes its teeth./Then the gnat flies away to gnaw on a new gnu./So, if we don't use the 'g' sound what good does it do?/Neither the gnat nor the gnu knew. Towards the end of the book there are two accounts Based on a fable by Aesop: first, a good version of LM (31-33) and then a composite fable, The Wolves, the Tiger, and the Rabbit. The tiger takes the rabbit from the quarreling wolves, but then moves through water and has the problem usually associated with DS. I was lucky to find this fable needle in Second Story's warehouse haystack of books!

Identifier

en_US 1401091113

en_US 7047 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82324

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Xlibris Corporation

en_US Philadelphia, PA

Subject

en_US PZ8.3.G73 Cr 2003 See all items with this value

en_US Collection See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole