A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa

Title

en_US A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa

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Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First printing, first edition; signed by Barry Moser

en_US Virginia Hamilton

Creator

en_US Hamilton, Virginia

Contributor

Moser, Barry

Date

2016-04-20T15:51:46Z

2015-12

en_US 1997

Date Available

2016-04-20T15:51:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 1997

Abstract

en_US The trio of Hamilton, Moser, and Blue Sky Press have again fashioned a very impressive book. Unusually tall (over 8"x12") and heavy, the book is made to stand out. We are offered four American, three West Indian, and four African trickster tales, all with splendid illustrations. Among the best of these may be the illustrations of spider and lizard riding on chameleon as a river-raft (86-87 and 88-89). Some will recognize familiar fable material, like the wren besting the buzzard in a match of high-flight (15) or the cat and rat visiting fox to help divide the cheese they have captured (33), or the turtle riding the leopard -- for only a while (91)! The West Indian and African tales tend, I believe, to get into more and more magic that makes the stories longer and less like fables. Rabbit and spider are among the chief tricksters. The introduction gives a good sense of the criterion of this collection: "All of these new tales kept the pattern of the African trickster tales in which a resourceful animal hero having human traits used deceit and sly trickery, and often magic, to get what it needed from bigger and stronger animals" (10).

Identifier

en_US 10729 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/85509

Language

eng

Publisher

The Blue Sky Press: Scholastic

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.H154Rin 1997

en_US Trickster

Type

Book, Whole