First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Orchard Books. London. This is a large-format -- almost 10" x 12" -- children's book. It sets a young reader up well for things to come in the race when it describes hare in ...

Here is a lively eight-page presentation of GA. Both figures are dressed in human clothes. The grasshopper plays an electric guitar hooked up to a loudspeaker with a mouth that comes right out of its box! Other insects ...

Here is a lively eight-page presentation of "The Lion and the Fox." This lion wears himself out hunting but catches nothing. His cave is surprising. A turtle is his footstool, and a flamingo seems to be a lamp! "This ...

Here is a lively eight-page presentation of an Aesopic fable less often told. The basic story line is that a rabbit outruns a hunting dog because one is running for his life while the other is running only for his food. ...

Here is a lively eight-page presentation of BC. It all starts outside of a home as mice are stealing a huge ham. The cat catches one of them. Soon they use all sorts of modern media to announce a meeting of mice: letters, ...

Here is a lively eight-page presentation of story of a flea who tries to better herself by leaving the flea-crowded dog she inhabits with relatives. She chooses a camel and thinks she is a queen as this camel leads a ...

A first pair of pages challenges the traditional story about a hungry soldier tricking some stingy villagers into making him a big pot of soup. "The truth is that stone soup was invented here in China, and without any sly ...

Here is a lively eight-page presentation of GGE. The central human being here is a poor old man who has only this hen. This hen changes, for no known reason, one day and starts producing golden eggs. The owner adds to ...

Here is a lively eight-page presentation of BW. There is a new element added here. After his first two pranks, the people of the town sit the shepherd down to tell him that it is not good to play with people's trust. ...

This is a third copy of this first printing with its dust jacket. Here is another strong and well considered Jerry Pinkney book. The artist's statement at the end of the book is helpful. Pinkney's watercolors stress the ...