Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl
Language: English
Published by Blue Sky Press, 2003
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl
- Author
- Hamilton, Virginia
- Publisher
- Blue Sky Press
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good-
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 059047376X
- ISBN 13
- 9780590473767
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Ransome, James E.
- Edition
- First Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Children's Fiction, Myth & Folklore
Bruh Rabbit may indeed have met his match when he comes across a tar baby in the middle of the road. The baby's deaf, dumb and blind attitude infuriates the plucky trickster, just as Wolf planned! When Bruh Rabbit gets entangled in the tar baby's sticky embrace, has he finally been foiled by his long-time enemy? Certainly not, if Wolf falls for Bruh Rabbit's clever reverse-psychology and flings the wily rabbit into the briar patch!
Spun in Virginia Hamilton's unique vernacular, this will be a delight to those familiar with Bruh Rabbit's games, and a unforgettable introduction for newcomers!
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Reviews
Nina Lindsay, Oakland Public Library, CA
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
PreS-Gr. 2. As demonstrated in her African American story collections The People Could Fly (1985) and Her Stories (1995), the late Hamilton's research into history and folklore has always been rigorous, but she has never allowed it to get in the way of her telling. In this version of the beloved Tar Baby trickster story, she drew on Gullah folklore from the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Her rhythmic, immediate version is well matched by Ransome's paintings, both cozy and exciting, which extend the fun with beautiful farmland scenes at "dayclean" (dawn) and "daylean" (evening) picturing the wily rabbit thief in human clothes repeatedly outwitting the wolf. The hilarious climax of the story is unforgettable as Rabbit first talks to Tar Baby ("'Girl, why won't you speak to me? What you doing out here?'"), then sticks to her, each part of his body in turn. Although things look bleak, Rabbit still wins in the end, and Hamilton's source note, which points to Bruh Rabbit as a favorite character among African American slave storytellers, who always seemed helpless but was traditionally really tricky and clever. A perfect choice for reading aloud. Hazel Rochman
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