Sister Rabbit's Tricks
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
“It’s no trick! Shkeme Garcia has written a simple fable that teaches a powerful lesson about jokes that go too far. Sister Rabbit’s Tricks should be recommended reading for adults as well as kids.”—Carla Aragón, author of Dance of the Eggshells
Sister Rabbit enjoys visiting her friends and relatives in the forest. She also enjoys playing tricks on the other animals, and sometimes Rabbit’s tricks get her into trouble.
Inspired by the many rabbit stories from the pueblos of New Mexico, this story of Sister Rabbit and her antics shows us a trickster animal, wily and lovable, who can fool her friends but needs to learn some lessons about how to get along in life.
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Garcia and Pringle, who previously collaborated on Coyote and the Sky (2006), return with a trickster tale starring Sister Rabbit, whose cruel jokes reveal why buzzards' heads are bald, bees don't like to be disturbed, and bald eagles' heads are white. Pringle paints soft, na f woodland scenes Sister Rabbit looks especially innocent, which perhaps explains why the other animals are so willing to go along with her instructions. The rabbit cajoles Buzzard into participating in a Fire Dance, which burns off the colorful plumage on his head; persuades Bear that he should whack a beehive with a stick; and gets Eagle to stick his head in a hole filled with ash, turning it white (the effect of the third story is lessened by Pringle's choice to paint Eagle's head white both before and after the incident). Garcia's pared-down storytelling is both accessible and entertaining (just right for storytime), and Sister Rabbit gets her comeuppance, forced to use her large ears and feet to avoid Buzzard, Bear, and Eagle, "who sometimes still chase her around the forest." Ages 3 5.
