Friends Of A Feather: One of Life's Little Fables

Title

en_US Friends Of A Feather: One of Life's Little Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US By Bill Cosby

Creator

en_US Cosby, Bill See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Cosby, Erika

Date

2016-01-25T19:13:07Z

en_US 2003-06

en_US 2003

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:13:07Z

Date Issued

en_US 2003

Abstract

en_US This is a hard-bound landscape-formatted book almost 10 x 9. It was sold without a dj. It has a distinctive art style: it uses stickers to insert characters into a scene. This illusion is created chiefly, I think, by the white outlines surrounding each character. A reader--like me--might even try to peel the stickers off. The narrator is Slipper, who immediately lets us know that he was THE BIRD. A bird named Feathers attracted people to the beach where Slipper used to show off. The only bird that could sometimes out-attract Feathers was Hog, a pelican-like bird who gobbled up fish and shrimp in his bucket-shaped beak. But his fine performance, perhaps because of his dull color and shape, never got the attention that Feathers got. Trying to outdo Feathers, Hog hit the rock and was seriously hurt. Feathers talked patiently with him as he recovered. His lesson was that we get destructive when we do things not for or with each other but rather to impress the spectators around. The narrator mentions that that would be a good ending to the story, but it has one more episode…. I am not so sure that this book presents a fable, but I suspect that it will appear so often when I search for fables that I decided to give in now and catalogue it.

Identifier

en_US 60091479

en_US 4590 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80245

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Harper Entertainment

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PZ7.C8185 Fr 2003 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole