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Cargando... The Bun: A Tale from Russia (1972)por Marcia Brown
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The bun gets away from the old man and his wife, the hare, the wolf, and the bear, but the cunning fox poses a different problem. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Marcia Brown, whose folkloric retellings include Stone Soup and Once a Mouse..., presents the Russian version of this widespread tale in The Bun, complete with her signature illustrations, done this time in bright reds, greens, and browns. I was happy to stumble across this adaptation of the story, mostly because of the many folkloric associations mentioned above, but am not surprised that it has gone out of print. A Russian-speaking friend assures me that the Bun's little song is quite amusing in the original, but I don't think it translates very well here, and I have a hard time imagining that young English readers will be particularly enthralled with it - particularly when they have The Gingerbread Man to turn to... ( )