Friends Of A Feather: One of Life's Little Fables
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Cosby, Bill
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2003
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I had long since catalogued this book when, to my surprise, I found at Powell's this fancy leather-bound first printing signed by both Cosby contributors. This edition has other special features: especially sturdy paper, a ribbon, a certificate of authenticity, and a pamphlet about the book. Apparently Easton Press has a series of Signed First Editions; they acknowledge the permission they received from HarperCollins Publishers, the publishers of the standard edition. Is 1500 a rather large number for so exclusive an edition? In any case, I decided that this collection is an apt place for an unusual book like this. I will include comments from my first copy. This landscape-formatted book has a distinctive art style: it uses stickers to insert characters into a scene. This illusion is created chiefly, I think, by the white outlines surrounding each character. A reader--like me--might even try to peel the stickers off. The narrator is Slipper, who immediately lets us know that he was THE BIRD. A bird named Feathers attracted people to the beach where Slipper used to show off. The only bird that could sometimes out-attract Feathers was Hog, a pelican-like bird who gobbled up fish and shrimp in his bucket-shaped beak. But his fine performance, perhaps because of his dull color and shape, never got the attention that Feathers got. Trying to outdo Feathers, Hog hit the rock and was seriously hurt. Feathers talked patiently with him as he recovered. His lesson was that we get destructive when we do things not for or with each other but rather to impress the spectators around. The narrator mentions that that would be a good ending to the story, but it has one more episode….
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7469 (Access ID)