Something Nasty in the Cabbages

Wallis, Diz

ISBN 10: 187809310X ISBN 13: 9781878093103

Publisher: Boyds Mills Press, 1991

Synopsis

Boyds Mills Press publishes a wide range of high-quality fiction and nonfiction picture books, chapter books, novels, and nonfiction

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From Kirkus Reviews:

A retelling of ``Chantecler and the Fox,'' not based on Chaucer but on a similar 12th-century French version of the tale about a vain cock who, caught by a trickster fox, escapes by tricking the fox in turn. The text here is well honed, pleasantly informal, and a bit more accessible than Cooney's (Caldecott Medal, 1959), but it's the illustrations that attract attention: lovingly rendered in exquisite, precisely observed detail, they depict dozens of tiny woodland creatures and a bucolic landscape, with just a few mischievous contemporary touches (e.g., a bike, and the buxom farmwife's bedroom slippers). The pictorial style is traditional, but the illustrations are full of life and humor, escaping their borders and providing dozens of entertaining details. A handsome debut for this English illustrator, and for the publisher. (Picture book. 4-10) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 187809310X
• ISBN 13: 9781878093103
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32