Foolish Rabbit's Big Mistake

Martin, Rafe; Young, Ed

ISBN 10: 0460062565 / ISBN 13: 9780460062565

Published by Everyman Ltd, 1986

About this Item

J M Dent & Sons Ltd (1986). Large-format hardcover. Gift inscription on opening endpaper and some textual indentation to back cover where book has been used as a rest for writing paper. Otherwise, book remains in very good condition with clean, unmarked pages which are free from scribbles etc. Dispatched from UK within three days.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1751632562977

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Foolish Rabbit's Big Mistake
• Publisher: Everyman Ltd
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0460062565
• ISBN 13: 9780460062565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 395 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's

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Synopsis

Light wear to boards, corners bumped. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 3 A retelling of a Jataka precurser of Chicken Little and Henny Penny. A foolish rabbit under an apple tree dreams that the earth might breakup. When the predictable crash jars him from sleep, he assumes the worst and spreads his news throughout the jungle. Only a lion, viewing the consternation from a lofty resting place, interrupts the animals' flight towards a fatal precipice. The lion forcefully directs the animals to examine the facts of the matter, then prevents the animals from tearing the rabbit "to pieces" when they find out how gullible they have been. Suitable tone and economy of language reflect the author's storytelling experience, although his modern dialogue occasionally doesn't suit the story. Still, storytellers will be pleased to find that they can tell this moral tale of fear, gossip and forgiveness as written. Independent readers, and all the rest who like their stories with pictures, will be astonished by Young's illustrations. Van Gogh-like use of colors make the animals' frightful adrenalin level easy to believe: shadows may be purple or green or blue, but never just gray. The lion's paw stamped on the solid ground in emphasis and as proof that the earth is not breaking up fills a double spread. Ominous, murky shadows are balanced by phosphorescent color combinations which heighten dramatic tension. So effectively do they do this that the normal, naturalistic color palette used in the concluding picture of the first apple tranquilizes a little of the fear that we all carry with us. This dramatic presentation of a dramatic tale is recommended for all of us, grown or not, who have anything in common with the foolish rabbit. Dana Whitney Pinizzotto, The Parish Day School of the Church of the Transfiguration, Dallas
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