Four, Four, and Four/Fur, Fin, and Feather Fables

Title

en_US Four, Four, and Four/Fur, Fin, and Feather Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Philip White

Creator

en_US Spanfeller, James J. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US White, Philip

Date

2016-01-25T16:29:28Z

en_US 1998-12

en_US 1960

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:29:28Z

Date Issued

en_US 1960

Abstract

en_US The fours of the title refer to three sections of four fables each. Each fable gets one right-hand page for the combination of text and a simple black-and-white drawing. The fables are actually told as chreiai, anecdotes about named animals in particular places. Thus Ringtail the monkey lost his tail to a shark when he played one too many pranks on board ship and slipped overboard. These children's stories are simplistic and very correct. Thus a dog in Hawaii was named Poki (because he liked to poke his nose into strange places) by a newcomer to the islands who did not know that poki was a word for cat. But the dog did not know it either, so the dog spent a happy life. Moral: It doesn't matter what your name is as long as you are glad to be you. I do think this is the first time that I have heard of building a fire under a jackass to make him move! Tropical is written trophical and stubbornness stubborness. I could not wait to finish this book!

Identifier

en_US 3043 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78451

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Printed by Dietz Press

en_US Richmond, VA

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.W54 Fo 1960 See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole