How Rabbit Tricked Otter (Parabola Storytime Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (539 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1559945427 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 546 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bob Walters said Well told tales .. Great stories well told, with beautiful and clever illustrations. Of course, rather than read these stories to kids, you should learn them and then tell them, Cherokee style, but this is a good place to start.. "Great stories your kids will love!" according to thirtysomething mom from no.cal. After hearing and watching Gayle Ross tell stories during a Native Children's Authors Festival in Northern California, I came across her audio tapes and absoultely love these stories. My daughter liked listening to them on the way to school and during long road trips, and would re-listen to them every few months without tiring of the stories. She even referenced them when telling her o. Great Book for Youngsters William G. Parrott Fantastic book. I and others have read several of these stories to the cub scout pack on camping trips. Lot's of fun.
. A handsome, informative collection. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. With gleeful relish he transforms Possum's tail into a "red, skinny, hairless" shadow of its former self; and in a stroke of revenge he blunts poor Deer's teeth. The wily creature is a consummate mischief-maker, always ready to prove himself better than his fellow animals--almost always through unfair means. Cunning trickster though he is, he often gets a good comeuppance. The reader finds him disguised as an otter, cheating in races and constantly filling t
These stories are published in collaboration with Parobola, The Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition.. But Rabbit was also mischievous, and his cunning ways were always getting him into trouble. Rabbit was the messenger; he was swift and sure-footed. Long ago, animals did many of the things that people do:they organized towns, held meetings and dances, and made up games. In this collection of Cherokee tales, storyteller Gayle Ross and artist Murv Jacob, with a foreword by Chief Wilma Mankiller of the Cherokee Nation, bring together the many sides of Rabbit, the Cherokee Trickster-hero. As with all stories of the oral tradition, the Rabbit stories amuse, entertain, and educate. Every animal had its own place, and each had a special job to do