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The unusual story that a wealthy couple's servant buys from a thief proves to be well worth the price
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Grade 1-3?In this retelling of a Korean folktale, an elderly couple send their servant, Mr. Pak, to the city to buy a story, which he is to learn by heart and bring back so that they may entertain themselves. Mr. Pak is bamboozled by a thief, whose "story" is simply a recounting of the movements of a nearby stork. The man returns home; although mystified by the "story," his employer loudly retells it every night, hoping to understand it better. Some time later the same thief comes to rob the couple's house. When he overhears the story, elements of which mimic his movements, he believes that he has been discovered and flees. The author adds a nice tag in which the wife says, "The more I hear the tale, the more I wonder. And wonder is a very valuable thing." Huang's illustrations are comically distorted, with expressive faces, accurate traditional costumes, and details such as a white cat that appears in each scene with the couple. In a foreword, the author tells how she came to know the story, which she heard from her students while teaching at a university in Seoul and eventually found in Frances Carpenter's Tales of a Korean Grandmother (Tuttle, 1972). She has improved on it by making the seller of the fake story and the thief one and the same person, and by removing Carpenter's emphasis on the stupidity of country folk. An enjoyable addition.?Pam Gosner, formerly at Maplewood Memorial Library, NJ
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- PublisherAlbert Whitman & Co
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0807551791
- ISBN 13 9780807551790
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorHuang Benrei
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