Library Book: The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind (Rise and Shine) - Hardcover

National Geographic Learning

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874838320 ISBN 13: 9780874838329

Publisher: National Geographic School Pub, 2010

Synopsis

A man finds himself swept up in a battle of strength between the sun and the wind, as each attempts to make the man remove his coat first.

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Storyteller Forest recasts this fable from Aesop in simple, crystalline language and occasional rhyme. As a man wearing a coat walks down a road, the sun and wind watch. The wind, puffing itself up, declares that he is stronger than the sun, but the sun challenges: Let’s see who can take the coat off of that man. The gray wind, with pointy teeth, bushy eyebrows, and a fierce visage, whirls away, which only makes the man cling more tightly to his coat. The rosy-cheeked sun, with rainbows in its eyes, brightens the world until the man bursts into song, unbuttons his coat, and uses it for a pillow under a tree. Moral? Gentleness beats bluster. Gaber’s wild and vivid images reflect, augment, and illuminate the story: the last spread shows not only lion and lamb but also a tree in all stages of growth from bare branch to full leaf. A deeply satisfying retelling, worthy of pondering. Grades K-3. --GraceAnne A. DeCandido

Edition details

• Publisher: National Geographic School Pub
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874838320
• ISBN 13: 9780874838329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32