-
Title
-
en_US
The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind: An Aesop's Fable
-
en_US
August House Little Folk
-
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
Retold by Heather Forest
-
Creator
-
en_US
Aesop
-
Contributor
-
en_US
Gaber, Susan
-
Date
-
2016-01-25T19:54:12Z
-
en_US
2008-06
-
en_US
2008
-
Date Available
-
2016-01-25T19:54:12Z
-
Date Issued
-
en_US
2008
-
Abstract
-
en_US
I have several other texts done by Heather Forest, but I believe that this is both my first book by Susan Gaber and my first book published in 2008. It follows the correct version of the fable when it has the sun say Let us see who can take the coat off of that man on the road. Forest continues to tell the story well. The text moves into occasional rhyme, as when the wind proclaims: I'll SMASH him against the trees!/I'll take his coat off with ease! The art does a good job of matching the two forces, e.g., when they together form a circle on the title-page. Gaber can use two pages together for a landscape view, as when the man bends with the wind, or for a portrait view on the following pages, when the wind blows harder and the man holds onto his coat. Here there is no contact or interchange between the two rounds; the wind simply blusters off. The man in the sunshine not only unbuttons his coat. He also sings out loud. Finally, he takes off his coat and sits in a shady spot. The wind returns and tells the sun that he cannot imagine that the sun could do any better than he did. The sun shows him the man sitting and playing his flute. How did you FORCE him to take off his coat! The sun answers that he won his way through gentleness. When the wind opines that there must have been a trick, the sun offers to show him the choice and the skill that did it. The story wisely does not give the wind's answer. The author adds only The Sun just smiled…. This lovely book is dedicated to Peace Makers everywhere.
-
Identifier
-
en_US
9780874838329 (hardcover : alk. paper)
-
en_US
6367 (Access ID)
-
Language
-
en_US
eng
-
Publisher
-
en_US
August House Little Folk
-
en_US
Atlanta, GA
-
Subject
-
en_US
PZ8.2.F62 Con 2008
-
en_US
One story
-
Type
-
en_US
Book, Whole