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FOLKTALES AND NURSERY RHYMES
Lippert, Margaret H. Paye, Won-Ldy, Reteller

The Talking Vegetables

32 pp. | Holt | October, 2006 | Trade ISBN 0-8050-7742-1 $16.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Julie Paschkis. In this Anansi story (which previously appeared in the retellers' Why Leopard Has Spots), Spider refuses to help his neighbors with the work on their communal farm. Later, when he tries to help himself to the ripened crops, the vegetables won't allow it: "You didn't help make the farm. Go away!" This retelling ends anticlimactically, but Paschkis's folk-art-like gouache illustrations are dynamic.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

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