Jolly Hares
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Mikhalkov, Sergeĭ
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1969
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Fourteen fables, all with several delightful Rachev illustrations. A Friend in Need is about the mosquito who can get revenge on the bear. How the Birds Saved Little Kid is an exciting rescue ten pages long. Wolf bandits are drowned, and a non-helpful pig (subject of a great illustration on 14-15) is excluded from the final party. Superstitious Shaky-Tail is like the movie Airplane, the story of an emergency landing made by a hare on Friday, the 13th. How Misha Bear Found a Pipe mixes narrative prose and dramatic verse in a story that shows the evils of smoking; there is a fine picture of Misha after smoking too much (39). Rabbit Nose-in-the-Air is described as a Fairy-Tale in Two Acts and a Prologue. It stretches to a length well beyond that of a fable, in fact some forty-six pages. The Boar and the Yoke sees the latter being put on the former by a bear before the story is over. The Portrait includes one of the best illustrations of the book (98), a portrait of the ass as a lion. It Was All Their Own Fault speaks in terms like those of the Vita Aesopi about two hares who did not remove the rock from their front walk. The main character in The Greedy Hare brings a keg to the hive to take honey, and the bees react fiercely to him; when the bear brings only a jar to the hive, they let him have half a jar in peace. The main character in The Stubborn Rooster insists on being seen as an eagle; he ends up with nothing but trouble. Yank-Tail is about a hare who finds a wolf's tail in a trap and brags that he overcame the wolf in a fight. He is revealed as a coward when he is frightened by a rooster. In The Mirror the put-down artist Hippopotamus laughs at himself in the mirror and cannot believe that he sees himself. The other animals recognize that he is so stupid that his taunts should not be taken seriously. In The Hare Who Fibbed the hare has lied to Misha the Bear that the latter had injured his foot in an accident; in the end a fox doctor shows how little wounded hare really was. The Test refers to the claim of a parrot that he would only speak human language henceforth; when put to the test, he says Parrot's a fool! The last page invites readers' feedback. I enjoy Rachev's work a great deal.
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Progress Publishers
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3391 (Access ID)