The Fox and the Rooster & Other Tales
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Pearson, Maggie
Issue Date
1997
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A book published in Waukesha! What a find! Originally published in 1997 by Magi Publications in London. There are, I believe, two fables among the fourteen stories here. The only other story that I happen to recognize is Pied Piper. The two I know as fables are Stone Soup (53) and the title-story, The Fox and the Rooster (69). A nice visual feature of the book is the pictorial headers and footers that change with each story. The illustration for Pied Piper (24) is excellent: the mice swarm together before viewer's eyes! The maker of stone soup is a storyteller, and he finds the right stone in the village itself. At the end of it all, he fishes out the stone and throws it away and declares I don't need that and I never did. When they ask what story he told, he tells them Stone soup! The title-story begins with Partlet, not Chanticleer, having nightmares about Chanticleer's being eaten by a fox. Does not the strong illustration on 71 get the spatial relationship between Renard and Chanticleer wrong? Reynard here appeals to the pride of Chanticleer: But best of all I love the song you sing to wake the world each morning. The temptation by Renard here does not to include standing on tiptoe and closing one's eyes until it comes to comparing Chanticleer to his father. Once Chanticleer is taken by Renard, it is here a farmer that takes after the thief. Chanticleer tries various ways to get Renard to open his mouth, including asking if this is the way that Renard killed Chanticleer's father, but they fail. In the end, the traditional appeal works, for Chanticleer advises Renard to tell the old farmer to give up because he has been beaten. Never close your eyes when they should be open, and never open your mouth when it should be shut!
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Little Tiger Press