The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote
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Johnston, Tony
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1995
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"The back cover is right: "Rabbit keeps tricking Coyote again and again." Several of those trickster moves are the stuff of fable. In the first trick, a farmer gets rabbit stuck to a wax scarecrow that is like the tar baby in the Brer Rabbit cycle. The farmer puts him into a sack next to a boiling pot readied to cook him. Coyote comes by and from the sack, rabbit convinces coyote that he is waiting to marry the farmer's daughter and that hot chocolate is brewing. Coyote takes his place and gets a scalding for his trouble. Rabbit next substitutes hard jicara for soft and sweet zapote and hits coyote on the head and knocks him out. Then he gets him to sit against a huge boulder allegedly ready to roll down and crush the world. Next he gets coyote to tend the "little children in this little school." The school is really a wasps' nest, and coyote is to give a knock if a pupil tries to leave. Lots of ugly stinging for poor coyote! Finally rabbit gets coyote to try to drink up the pond to get at the cheese in it. The following chase leads rabbit to climb a ladder to the moon, where he now lives. He is the Mexican equivalent of our "man in the moon." The dePaola illustrations are engaging as always. The first page declares "Tony y Tomie son muy buenos amigos." It appears that there was a 1994 Putnam and Grosset edition. This Scholastic edition from 1995 "is only available for distribution through the school market.""
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10828 (Access ID)