The Tortoise or the Hare

Title

en_US The Tortoise or the Hare

en_US Books for Young Readers: A Paula Wiseman Book

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Apparent second printing

en_US Toni Morrison & Slade Morrison

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Cepeda, Joe

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:39Z

en_US 2011-07

en_US 2010

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 2010

Abstract

en_US About seven years earlier, Toni and Slade Morrison did three books of fables for Scribner's, all beginning with the question Who's Got Game? Their artist in all three of those was Pascal LeMaitre. Now here is a new offering with a different artist and publisher. Jimi Hare cannot help himself. He is fast! He is known as a show-off and travels alone. Jamey Tortoise cannot help himself in a different way: he is smarter than everyone else. He studies alone. The newspaper announces a contest, a race whose winner gets a golden crown. Jimi and Jamey both sign up. Jamey calls the newspaper and asks which story interests the paper more: the winner who loses or the loser who wins. The fox reporter loves both stories and says so. Jimi asks the reporter what gets more attention: the largest crowd and or the loudest cheers. The answer is the same. When the race starts, Jamey takes off fast and Jimi goes straight to the bus stop. During the day he travels on bus, train, boat, and plane. Jimi entertains the crowd all day with stunts. Jimi came in first, Jamey second. (There seem to be only these two contestants.) Since the reporter knew the story of the tortoise and hare, she had expected the opposite. So her headline was Winner loses! Loser wins! Jimi says he won because he has the crown. Jamey says he won because he has the headline. The last page shows them shaking hands and declares It's not the race. It's not who wins. It's when the runners become good friends. This is a lively and engaging presentation, if a bit far-fetched.

Identifier

en_US 9781416983347 (hardcover)

en_US 7480 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82749

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PS3563.O8749 T6 2010 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole