Jump! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

Title

en_US Jump! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Joel Chandler Harris; Adapted by Van Dyke Parks and Malcolm Jones

Creator

en_US Harris, Joel Chandler

Contributor

en_US Moser, Barry

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:52Z

en_US 2014-07

en_US 1986

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1986

Abstract

en_US Forty large-format pages present five story complexes involving respectively Brer Wolf, Brer Fox, Frer Terrapin, Brer Fox again, and Brer Bear. The volume closes with the song Hominy Grove. The wolf story might be titled How to scald a wolf in a locked chest. The first fox story is about playing dead in the road. The trick works for Brer Rabbit but not for Brer Fox. The third story pits terrapin against rabbit. Five look-alike members of Brer Terrapin's family take places at each of the five mileposts and appear when Brer Rabbit approaches. The second Brer Fox cycle has Brer Rabbit riding him like a horse -- and not getting off but rather spurring him on near Miss Meadow's. Brer Rabbit's jump closes this story after his successful riding of Brer Fox as though he were the rabbit family's riding horse (32-33). The last story has Brer Rabbit and Brer Terrapin luring Brer Bear, Bear Wolf, and Bear Fox into the Mill Pond to net the moon. Each story cycle has three or four full-page illustrations. Some are portraits of chief actors. Each story has a colored two-page spread of a key moment in the story. Among the better illustrations are: Brer Fox Meets Mr. Man (14-15) and Brer Rabbit in the Agony of Defeat (25). Maybe best of all is The Rabbit Family's Riding Horse (30-31). Formerly owned by the Houston Public Library.

Identifier

en_US 152413502

en_US 10286 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76274

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

en_US San Diego, CA

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.P2255 Ju 1986

en_US Brer Rabbit

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole