Item
The Mouse Bride: A Mayan Folk Tale
- Title
- en_US The Mouse Bride: A Mayan Folk Tale
- en_US An Umbrella Book
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US First printing
- en_US By Judith Dupré
- Creator
- en_US Dupré, Judith See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Vanden Broeck, Fabricio
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:59:04Z
- en_US 2009-09
- en_US 1993
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:59:04Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1993
- Abstract
- en_US This good telling of the familiar tale starts with the mouse parents who dote on their perfect daughter. One night they make a plan to find her a perfect husband. They ask the moon who is most powerful. The Sun. They wrap their daughter in a fern and go to the Sun and ask him to marry her. Why should I? Told that she is perfect and he is the most powerful in the universe, he disagrees with the latter statement. Cloud blocks my light; Cloud is most powerful. Cloud laughs until teardrops run down his cheeks. The Wind can chase him away; Wind is the most powerful. The Wind shows by blowing against a stone wall that Wall is stronger than he. But Wall says I crumble when a mouse burrows through me. A mouse is the most powerful. the mouse parents smile -- and find a fine mouse groom waiting for them when they return home. Perhaps the wedding picture at the end is the most charming in the book. The mouse bride wears a veil, and individual mice dance by holding another's paw or tail. The illustrations include lovely touches of Mayan temple art. This is not the first time that I have encountered a world-famous story touted as the product of a particular culture. I wonder which culture can claim to have originated this tale.
- Identifier
- en_US 9780679932734 (lib. bdg.)
- en_US 6761 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Alfred A. Knopf
- en_US New York
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.1.D874 Mou 1993 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books