The Red Rock: A Graphic Fable

Title

en_US The Red Rock: A Graphic Fable

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Tomio Nitto

Creator

en_US Nitto, Tomio See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Nitto, Tomio

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:52Z

en_US 2012-05

en_US 2006

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 2006

Abstract

en_US This is a single story of a beaver and a young girl who each do what they can to stop the ruining of a lively and lovely habitat for financial gain. Old Beaver looks out over the terrain he has worked for a lifetime, including the red rock. The red rock is a huge and weird old rock that had always been there. At the same time, developers are planning to cut down the timber and turn the whole area into financial productivity: damns, cruise ships, luxury hotels, night lights, hot springs. Part of the height of the arrogance of the evil developers is that they want to carve the red rock into a face of the developer! A young girl hears about this development on TV and gets worried. Trees start coming down. The animals and the girl do what they can, but it seems little against the great corporations and their huge machines. Then at midnight a bolt zaps out from the red rock. In comic book panels, the bolt makes the beaver into a super-beaver who confronts developers and shows them the loss of natural life they are causing. In a pitched battle, the beaver knocks the teeth out of greed. Finally he and the developer agree and construction stops. Things grow again. The supernatural element of the story is fascinating. Old Beaver himself wasn't really sure how the forest had been saved. He asks the red rock one day if maybe he dreamed the whole thing. The red rock didn't say a word, as usual. The animals learned what Old Beaver and the little girl and the red rock had always known -- that you have to fight to defend this beautiful world.

Identifier

en_US 9780888996695

en_US 7833 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83086

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Groundwood Books: House of Anansi Press

en_US Toronto

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.N577 Red 2006 See all items with this value

en_US Tomio Nitto See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole