When Birds Could Talk & Bats Could Sing: The Adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and Their Friends.

Title

en_US When Birds Could Talk & Bats Could Sing: The Adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and Their Friends.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Virginia Hamilton

Creator

en_US Hamilton, Virginia

Contributor

en_US Moser, Barry

Date

2016-01-25T16:15:23Z

en_US 1996-03

en_US 1996

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:15:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 1996

Abstract

en_US This is a lovely, charming book. The red cover is embossed with gilt feathers. Its frontispiece is a spectacular view of four birds with personality and strong attitudes. Its eight stories are told in mild dialect and have an etiological approach. Really cante fables containing some verse, they were first written down--and sometimes even created--by Martha Young. The stories touch on good traditional themes, as when wrens squabble over who owns a pumpkin too large for either of them to budge or when a young man wants to keep his dear, dying old horse from the buzzards. Moser's work is very strong. His birds all wear elegant hats! Beside the frontispiece, two of his best illustrations feature the bat with seven coats of feathers (10) and the conversation of Cardinal Red and Scarlet Red on a limb (52). An unsuspected treasure!

Identifier

en_US 590473727

en_US 2387 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77944

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Blue Sky Press: Scholastic

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.H154 St 1996

en_US Hamilton

Type

en_US Book, Whole