Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes
By Margie Palatini; Barry Moser (Illustrator)
(Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Hardcover, 9780689802461, 32pp.)
Publication Date: August 11, 2009
Categories: Fairy Tales & Folklore - Adaptations, Legends, Myths, & Fables - Greek & Roman
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Fox eyed a bunch of tantalizing grapes hanging from a vine growing high on a tree.
"Those juicy morsels are for me," he said with a grin.
The problem was, Fox was only so high...and the grapes were so, so, so high.
"No matter," said he. "I am sly. Clever. Smart. After all, I am a fox."
He made a plan....
And what a plan it is! Here Margie Palatini and Barry Moser, who collaborated on Earthquack! and The Three Silly Billies, give an ingenious -- and hilarious -- twist to the well-loved Aesop's fable "The Fox and the Grapes."
Barry Moser has won numerous accolades for his work, including the prestigious National Book Award for Design and Illustration and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. He is both an author and an artist, whose illustrations can be seen in books ranging from Voices of Ancient Egypt by Kay Winters to Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems by Kristine O'Connell George. Barry Moser's work is represented in collections throughout the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Library of Congress. He lives in western Massachusetts.
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