Almost Fables: Character Education with Humor

Title

en_US Almost Fables: Character Education with Humor

Description

en_US Robin Richmond Mason

Creator

en_US Mason, Robin Richmond See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Banks, Pat

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:43Z

en_US 2002-07

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:43Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US Here is an engaging set of twenty-five various stories with some remarkable full-page colored illustrations. Mason is right: the stories provoke discussion on a number of levels. I have read the first five. The first offering, The Mine Is Not Mine, presents graphically the attitude of a young man who wants to get away from a small mining town, his family, and the culture that has come with them. He is well portrayed as a rooster. What we get from him is less a story and more of a statement. The much shorter second offering, The Angora Goat, is by contrast a good replay of MSA. The third story is a creative redoing of the multiplication of loaves and fishes, but this time the assembled people offer the components once Jesus blesses the loaves and fishes that the boy has offered. The fifth story, Finders Keepers, is narrated by a dog who, with two dog friends, found and enjoyed a boat for a month, only then to find it gone. The story suggests well that they were keepers not of the boat but of the joy they had with it during the time it was theirs to sail. Though I have limited myself to five stories for this little report, I want to enjoy more of them, and that certainly does not happen with every book!

Identifier

en_US 871480484

en_US 4509 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80174

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Pathway Press

en_US Cleveland, TN

Subject

en_US PN982.M37 2001 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole