The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

by Julius Lester

Book Overview

Pinkney's lively and humorous illustrations are a perfect match for Lester's contemporary approach, which expertly introduces a modern sense of humor to these 48 tales while paying homage to their roots as traditional American folklore. Illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080370271X
• ISBN13: 9780803702714
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 4 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great Nightly Storytime

I read my children a story each night and they love it and can't wait for the next evening to get another one.

Wonderful!

What a delightful book! I bought this to read to my 5 yr old home-schooled daughter, and my 15 yr old son sat in every night to listen. The stories are hilarious, and we all laughed out loud many times. What a treasure!

Funny

This brings be back to my childhood, though the author has brought the stories up to date by including a line about 'Hank Aaron' etc.. I would have preferred the tales in their original form with the old slave dialect.

Lifetime Memories

I was raised on these tales of the wiley rabbit. My mother read me to sleep with The Songs of The South. Being from the heart of Dixie I have a very personal feeling for these wonderful colorful and enlightning tales of old. My middle age has allowed me to pass these tales on to my children and I am now reading them to my Grandchildren. In fact they are in demand from my kids wanting to read them to their children them selves when not convenient to do so by me.Uncle Remus spins a whimsicle yarn and uses old time forgotten vinacular that titilates the imagination to heights that brings a giggle to the staunches personality.The are truly an endless means of allowing imaginations paint colorful pictures and creating cool summer breezes under an old sycimore tree decked out with lazy spanish moss.Highly recommended and truly a milestone in our Southern Heritage and culture of The Old South. Song of The South will endure and hold on like a Mississippi snapping turtle.

This book one is one of my all-time childhood favorites!

I personally haven't read the book in years, but my Grandmother (Mama Toler, we called her) bought that book for me when I was very young. Actually, if memory serves, it was a collection of stories with Uncle Remus telling the tales, and included several stories about the adventures of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, and the Doogang. Oh, I can't forget to mention "Tar Baby" either! Even before I was old enough to read on my own, Mama Toler would hold me in her lap and read all about the Adventures of Brer Rabbit and the Briar Patch. I loved it when she would mimick Uncle Remus' laugh because her belly would jiggle and make me wiggle and giggle (can you tell the little child in me has been awakened?). This book is one is one of my all-time favorites and, although I haven't seen it in years, I'm thinking that this would be the perfect time for me to buy a copy for my four-year old granddaughter (and ME!) since she spends every other weekend with us and loves for "Nanna" to read to her. Thanks for rekindling some happy memories. Happy Reading to you all, too! Diane