It's Quite True!: A Story about Telling Tales

Title

en_US It's Quite True!: A Story about Telling Tales

en_US Famous Fables

en_US FF11

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Retold by Sarah Albee

Creator

en_US Albee, Sarah See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Doodlers, Artful

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:55Z

en_US 2012-07

en_US 2006

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:55Z

Date Issued

en_US 2006

Abstract

en_US This book's story is not a known fable, but it approaches a fable in its simplicity, even though it goes through a number of steps. The story moves from a chance comment made by a hen over one feather of hers that falls. The comment is overheard and misunderstood. I still look pretty with the feathers I have left! A neighbor understands her to plan to pluck out all her feathers and comments that she thinks she will look better that way. An owl overhears, elaborates, and comments. Soon the report is that several hens plucked out their feathers and caught a terrible chill. Before long there are supposedly ten to twenty hens who have been rushed to the hospital with a terrible disease! At this point the visual artists' best contribution occurs as one hen has to fan another who lies overwhelmed by this news. In the end the original hens read a newspaper report that sixty hens plucked out all their feathers to try to look more stylish and came down with a dreadful disease. A story can change each time it is told.

Identifier

en_US 9781599390291 (hardcover : alk. paper)

en_US 8942 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84148

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Reader's Digest Young Families

en_US Pleasantville, NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.F368 It 2006 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