Tops & Bottoms
by:
Janet Stevens (author)
Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780152928513 (0152928510)
ASIN: 152928510
Publish date: March 29th 1995
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Juvenile,
Nature,
Picture Books,
Animals,
Storytime,
Folklore,
Gardening,
Folk Tales,
Plants
Genre: Animals / Folktale / African American / Trickery Year Published: 1995 Year Read: 2010 Publisher: Harcourt Brace and Company I have been reading many stories that were inspired by Uncle Remus’ “Brer Rabbit” stories for many years, but I have never come across a story quite like this one!...
So do you like tops or bottoms better? Hare is smart but he has had some problems with his money and now his family is hungry. Sleepy, lazy old bear thinks he is the smartest of the two, when hare wants to plant the field in front of bear’s house. So when Bear says tops, Hare plants crops that pr...
I'm not really sure why I didn't like this more, but it just didn't dazzle me. The illustrations are nice and the format innovative (opening vertically instead of horizontal). The story is inspired by southern folktales that involve tricksters and lazy characters. And it's nice that in this story...
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