THE WONDERFUL FARM

by Marcel Ayme ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

By the French author and playwright, a gently meandering little group of animal stories, with an incisive caricature edging into fable. On the wonderful farm where Marinette and Delphine live with their parents, the animals not only talk but seem particularly anxious to assert themselves, in oddly human ways. There is the pig who decides to reduce for beauty's sake; the irascible gander who wishes to be treated with respect; the silly cock who is incited to rebellion against the stew-pot of the henyard by a wily-tongued and empty-stomached fox, and a lovely wild deer who discovers that one born to the danger of a free life cannot exchange freedom for safe barnyard security. The adventures of the little girls and the farmyard animals are deftly shaped, neatly packaged, but the air of carefree innocence and summer pastoral, a tone engagingly captured by many of the European moralists-on-holiday in juvenile literature, relieves the somewhat austere undertones for young children. Maurice Sendak's illustrations have a statuesque solidity. Translated by Norman Denny.

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Publisher: Harper

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1951

Categories: CHILDREN'S