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In a tale of team-spirit and determination, four friends try to reach their destination, using their collective wits and skills in order to overcome the obstacles they face and complete their journey successfully as a team.
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Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian
From Kirkus Reviews
Every journey has its logistical problems, but they come peck by drove in this absurdist's delight, penned in the 1930s by the Russian Kharms. A gent steps out one morning, ``singing a song,'' joins up with his friend Pete, then with a ``man no bigger than a jug,'' and another ``so long we couldn't see his feet.'' They proceed, though not before solving the dilemma of their varying gaits. This fast becomes a comedy of cooperation, as the bonhomous characters fashion goofily elegant solutions to each new challenge- -who rides the donkey, how to arrange themselves in boat and car. From the vicissitudes of this modest odyssey, Kharms--in Pevear's translation--conjures a drily humorous story that shrewdly captures the unique pleasures of working through a problem with other, very different, people. Or treat the book purely as a comic episode, a look at the varied permutations and combinations of a fixed set of possibilities, or an open-ended, shaggy-dog version of the theme most recently sighted in Ed Young's Donkey Trouble (1995). Rosenthal's superb illustrations are an irresistible cross- pollination of the Katzenjammer Kids with the daft tricksters found in Zap comics, situated in flat, graphically sophisticated landscapes. (Picture book/folklore. 4-8) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0374323399
- ISBN 13 9780374323394
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorMarc Rosenthal
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