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MacDonald, Margaret Read, Reteller

Mabela the Clever

32 pp. | Whitman | May, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-8075-4902-9 $$15.95
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Tim Coffey. Mabela the mouse uses lessons taught by her father to outwit the cat in this liberally adapted tale told by the Limba people of Sierra Leone. MacDonald shapes the tale with humor and familiar story conventions. Broad acrylic pictures of the crafty cat and the foolish mice in fanciful colors, and the straw huts that are the animals' homes, suggest a vaguely foreign folkloric setting.
Reviewer: Margaret A. Bush | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2001

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