Hare and Tortoise Race to the Moon
This is a space-age twist on the popular Aesop's fable, as the dust-jacket proclaims. Hare stops off at places like the North Pole and the desert before he gets serious. After the contest, these two good friends hop on the moon--six times higher than they could on earth. The combination of fabl...
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ftcreightonuniv:oai:dspace2.creighton.edu:10504/80454 2023-05-15T17:39:45+02:00 Hare and Tortoise Race to the Moon Corwin, Oliver J Retold and Illustrated by Oliver J. Corwin 2002 http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80454 eng eng Harry N. Abrams NY New York 0810905663 4832 (Access ID) http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80454 PZ7.C816875 Har 2002 Title Page Scanned Book, Whole 2002 ftcreightonuniv 2020-10-10T22:29:47Z This is a space-age twist on the popular Aesop's fable, as the dust-jacket proclaims. Hare stops off at places like the North Pole and the desert before he gets serious. After the contest, these two good friends hop on the moon--six times higher than they could on earth. The combination of fable and space travel is deliberately weird and off-putting, I think. The book makes a fine example of the strange places to which fable penetrates. Retold and Illustrated by Oliver J. Corwin This is a hardbound book (hard cover) This book has a dust jacket (book cover) Other/Unknown Material North Pole Creighton University: Creighton Digital Repository (CDR) North Pole |
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This is a space-age twist on the popular Aesop's fable, as the dust-jacket proclaims. Hare stops off at places like the North Pole and the desert before he gets serious. After the contest, these two good friends hop on the moon--six times higher than they could on earth. The combination of fable and space travel is deliberately weird and off-putting, I think. The book makes a fine example of the strange places to which fable penetrates. Retold and Illustrated by Oliver J. Corwin This is a hardbound book (hard cover) This book has a dust jacket (book cover) |
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