The Tiger and the Rabbit and other tales

Title

en_US The Tiger and the Rabbit and other tales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Told by Pura Belpré

Creator

en_US Belpré, Pura See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Parker, Kay Peterson

Date

2016-01-25T19:29:18Z

en_US 2001

en_US 1946

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:29:18Z

Date Issued

en_US 1946

Abstract

en_US Fifteen Puerto Rican stories. The first of them, The Tiger and the Rabbit (1-11), contains a number of standard fable motifs, like the cheese at the bottom of the well, the tiger allowing himself to be tied up, the monkey being thrown up into the air so that he can be better eaten, monkeys being promised immunity if they untie the tiger, and the rabbit riding the tiger as his mount. The Wolf, the Fox, and the Jug of Honey (41) is the old folktale in which allegedly christened children are named by the level of the goodies consumed by the clever fox. Here they include Just Begun and Past Half. La Hormiguita (55) is the series story about who is most powerful. Here it begins not with the marriage of a daughter but with an ant breaking a leg on snow. The series here is ant, snow, sun, cloud, wind, wall, mouse, cat, dog, stick, fire, water, bull, knife, man, death, and God. God cures the ant. In The Dance of the Animals (99), the would-be victim goat is thrown to safety by his very attacker, King Lion.

Identifier

en_US 5193 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80764

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Houghton Mifflin Company

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.B4129 Tg 1946 See all items with this value

en_US Puerto Rican See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole