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Brer Rabbit Stories from Uncle Remus
132 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1941
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Margaret Wise Brown
393 books1,210 followersMargaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well.
Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading.
She wrote all the time. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them.
She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper.
Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. She had many friends who still miss her. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense.
Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading.
She wrote all the time. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them.
She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper.
Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. She had many friends who still miss her. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense.
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April 16, 2018Part of my Classics to Grow On series of books which I received in childhood. I am now reading them all and, in most cases, giving away (i.e. to Little Libraries) rather than just keeping them around collecting dust.
November 5, 2021
This book absolutely has to be read in the context of the era it’s set in. This is by no means a politically correct book and if read through today eyes would be highly racist. I do believe however it’s an important source of cultural history, and as such needs to be preserved as well as read with the intention it was written with and with a deep appreciation as to why these stories were taught to African Americans during slavery and Jim Crow.
The stories are about the antics of Brer Rabbit and how he makes his way amongst the other forest animals. Each story gives an insight into the foibles of our own human nature. There are valuable life lessons to be learned and there is the constant warning to keep your wits about you in any given situation. African Americans were forced to do this constantly to be safe from white people if they didn’t.
These stories gave a kind of blue print on how to get out of situations that were very dangerous for a reason, to live to tell the tale. Hopefully one day it will be seen as m a testimony of how far we will get racially.
The stories are about the antics of Brer Rabbit and how he makes his way amongst the other forest animals. Each story gives an insight into the foibles of our own human nature. There are valuable life lessons to be learned and there is the constant warning to keep your wits about you in any given situation. African Americans were forced to do this constantly to be safe from white people if they didn’t.
These stories gave a kind of blue print on how to get out of situations that were very dangerous for a reason, to live to tell the tale. Hopefully one day it will be seen as m a testimony of how far we will get racially.
August 20, 2010
loved reading this.
March 4, 2011
great book to cling to history with our children.
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