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Title
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en_US
A Bundle of Sticks
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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Second printing
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Retold by Katherine Evans
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Creator
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Evans, Katherine
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Contributor
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Evans, Katherine
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:30:09Z
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1999-06
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1966
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:30:09Z
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Date Issued
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1962
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Abstract
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Original copyright was apparently 1962. Once again Katherine Evans uses a crayon-like style, alternating black-and-white and colored spreads. Here the fable is set in a Persian village, where a rugmaker has three sons. The three sons take on differing roles in the making of fine rugs: making patterns, mixing dyes, and weaving. Soon a contest is announced to make the finest rug for a royal wedding, with a big prize for the winner. The boys quarrel, each wanting to win the prize alone. And so they waste five of the six months allotted for making a rug. Then the father has them break individual sticks first--an unusual move for this fable. Then he challenges them with the bundle. The sons work together, and of course they win the prize. In a nice touch, the last page has a bundle of sticks hanging from a peg over their shop. The moral is included by saying that if you ask a brother, he will tell you Alone, each one is weak,/Together we are strong. This book was formerly property of Edison School in Walla Walla. The only bad news about finding this book is that the pre-title-page lists four other fables retold by Katherine Evans, and I have only one of them!
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Identifier
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3189 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Albert Whitman & Company
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Chicago, IL
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Subject
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PZ7.E888 Bu 1962
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Book containing one fable
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole