Das Perlhuhn und Andere Fabeln aus Südwest Afrika

Title

en_US Das Perlhuhn und Andere Fabeln aus Südwest Afrika

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Joachim Voigts

Creator

en_US Voigts, Joachim

Contributor

en_US Voigts, Joachim

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:00Z

en_US 2007-08

en_US 1978

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 1978

Abstract

en_US Here are six stories, first told by Voigts to his children. The texts are in German rhyming couplets, and each set of six or eight lines on the left-hand page is accompanied by a strong colored illustration on the right-hand page. The verses are fun. The images are strong. The first of the stories is the title-story about a guinea-hen. This character is so convinced of its beauty that it wants to see it in a mirror. While it is admiring its image in water, a baboon throws a rock into the water. While one laughs and the other complains, a jackal hears and wonders how he can eat the guinea-hen. The guinea-hen takes off after the baboon and forgets the jackal. The guinea-hen catches the baboon by the tail and calls the jackal to skin the baboon. The jackal of course grabs the guinea-hen and is ready to eat it. In the meantime, the baboon dances away from the scene. Soon the jackal laughs at him, and the guinea-hen flies free of him. The only one who can laugh in the end is the baboon. In the second story, a pair of zebras and an ass argue about who has it better. The zebras seem to win this one when a young man jumps on the ass, grabs his ears, and digs his spurs into the ass. In the third story, a new lamb is born and Isaak is carrying him home with the herd. Isaak falls asleep, and a leopard stalks the flock. Only the newborn lamb sees the leopard and is curious about him. The lamb jumps up onto the leopard's protruding rock and says baah. The alarmed leopard stands upright and knocks a hive of wasps apart. After lots of stings, the leopard leaves. Isaak wakes up, suspects nothing, and takes the full herd, including the lamb, home. In the fourth, a sparrow tries to take over an ostrich's nest and does not succeed. In the fifth, a frog sings but rouses opposition from a duck. The duck and then underwater a turtle each take one digit from one of the frog's front paws. Now he and his children have only four digits on each of their front paws. In the last story, the mouse gets in one good bite on King Lion's tail.

Identifier

en_US 9780868480084

en_US 6331 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81660

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Gamsberg Uitgewers

en_US Windhoek, Namibia

Subject

en_US GR350.V6 1978

en_US Joachim Voigts

Type

en_US Book, Whole