Tales of Uncle Remus (Puffin Modern Classics): The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

Tales of Uncle Remus (Puffin Modern Classics): The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

Tales of Uncle Remus (Puffin Modern Classics): The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

Tales of Uncle Remus (Puffin Modern Classics): The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

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Overview

Whether he is besting Brer Fox or sneaking into Mr. Man's garden, Brer Rabbit is always teaching a valuable lesson. These classic tales are full of wit, humor, and creativity, and Julius Lester brings an added contemporary sense to these forty-eight timeless stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780142407202
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date: 12/28/2006
Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 257,776
Product dimensions: 5.01(w) x 6.98(h) x 0.41(d)
Lexile: 760L (what's this?)
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Julius Lester is a celebrated author whose accolades include a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Award. He is also a National Book Award finalist, a National Book Critics Circle nominee, and a recipient of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In addition to his critically acclaimed writing career, Mr. Lester has distinguished himself as a civil rights activist, musician, photographer, radio talk-show host, and professor. For 32 years he taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He lives in western Massachusetts.

Jerry Pinkney is one of America's most admired children's book illustrators. He has won the Caldecott Medal and five Caldecott Honors, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Awards, the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and the Society of Illustrators' Original Art Show Lifetime Achievement Award, and many other prizes and honors. Recently a member of the National Council of the Arts and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has also served on the U.S. Postal Service Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. His artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center, and the Norman Rockwell Museum. Jerry Pinkney lives with his wife, author Gloria Jean Pinkney, in Westchester County, New York.
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