Available through our Marketplace sellers.
Other sellers (Hardcover)
-
All (45)
from
$1.99
-
New (6)
from
$1.99
-
Used (39)
from
$1.99
Note: Marketplace items are not eligible for any BN.com coupons and promotions
1999 Hardcover Brand New. 100% Money Back Guarantee! Ships within 1 business day, includes tracking. Carefully packed. Successful business for 25 Years!
Ships from: Darby, PA
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
- •Canadian
- •International
- •Standard, 48 States
- •Standard (AK, HI)
- •Express, 48 States
- •Express (AK, HI)
Tom Pohart NY 1999 Hardcover 1st Edition New in New jacket Book. 4to-over 9?-12" tall. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing).
Ships from: South Portland, ME
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
- •Canadian
- •International
- •Standard, 48 States
- •Standard (AK, HI)
- •Express, 48 States
- •Express (AK, HI)
New Ships From Canada. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 96 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. From Kirkus Reviews: Norman (The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese,
...
1997) presents seven trickster tales collected from living Algonquian storytellers, collated from multiple versions and backed up by specific source notes. That said, the scholarship is unobtrusive, and readers will have no trouble following Trickster from one pickle to the next. They may be puzzled at timesin the first story a meeting with a man/bear-hermit persuades Trickster, for some reason, to stop boasting that he's ``best at being alone''but they'll also laugh when Fox is bamboozled out of all but the feet of a brace of ducks, or when Trickster is tricked out in a coat of moldy fish heads in one tale, and a weasel's tail in another. The lines of text are varied in length to evoke the cadences of live telling, and Pohrt's human and animal figures are depicted with expressive, fine-lined realism. An inviting,
Read more
Show Less
Ships from: Ottawa, Canada
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
- •Canadian
- •International
- •Standard, 48 States
- •Standard (AK, HI)
- •Express, 48 States
- •Express (AK, HI)
Pohrt, Tom 1999 Hard cover Illustrated. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 96 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. From Kirkus Reviews: Norman (The Girl Who
...
Dreamed Only Geese, 1997) presents seven trickster tales collected from living Algonquian storytellers, collated from multiple versions and backed up by specific source notes. That said, the scholarship is unobtrusive, and readers will have no trouble following Trickster from one pickle to the next. They may be puzzled at timesin the first story a meeting with a man/bear-hermit persuades Trickster, for some reason, to stop boasting that he's ``best at being alone''but they'll also laugh when Fox is bamboozled out of all but the feet of a brace of ducks, or when Trickster is tricked out in a coat of moldy fish heads in one tale, and a weasel's tail in another. The lines of text are varied in length to evoke the cadences of live telling, and Pohrt's human and animal figures are depicted with expressive, fine-lined realism. An inviting,
Read more
Show Less
Ships from: Ottawa, Canada
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
- •Canadian
- •International
- •Standard, 48 States
- •Standard (AK, HI)
- •Express, 48 States
- •Express (AK, HI)
Brand New Item.
Ships from: Chatham, NJ
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
- •Canadian
- •International
- •Standard, 48 States
- •Standard (AK, HI)
- •Express, 48 States
Brand new.
Ships from: acton, MA
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Overview
With spare grace and lively wit, acclaimed author Howard Norman chronicles the hilarious antics of a provocative troublemaker. Whether cheating in a sleepwalking contest, teaching the shut-eye dance to ducks, or halting a wedding by transforming the groom into a kingfisher, Trickster sets the world askew. Like trickster figures the world round, this Algonquian mischief-maker prods our imagination and makes us laugh deep in our hearts. In forty-two luminescent, richly detailed paintings, Tom Pohrt follows ...