Marianne's Book Corner: 2010

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Witness

by Karen Hesse

Published by Random House 2001 Audio book

Genre: Historical Fiction, Racism, Prejudices and Social Issues

Reading Level: Ages 9-12

Summary: This book about a small town in Vermont in 1924 when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. Members of this community turn against each other under the influence of the KKK. The Klan is very subtle when it moves in to a new place. At first they offer aid to the needy and destiute, but if you're not white and protestant, and you have problems, the Klan would lift one finger to help you. They targeted Catholics, African-Americans and Jewish people. Slowly they bought up the loyalties of this town. Then the open persecution begins. First with a rock through Sarah Chickering's window. Their reason, Sarah had a Jewish man and his six year old daughter, Esther Hirsh living with her. Then they sent Merlin Van Tornhout, just a young kid, no more than twenty years old to poison the Sutter family's well. But he couldn't do it because he had watched as Leanora Sutter had saved Esther Hirsh's lives from the path of a moving train and he saw her watching him attempting to poison her family's well, so he couldn't do it. He ran away instead. That same night someone shot Esther's father through Sarah Chickering's kitchen door. The scariest thing about it is little Esther was sitting on her father's lap at the time. The bullet went through his right arm, grazed his chest and through his right arm. If Esther hadn't been leaning forward, that bullet would have killed her. So Merlin Van Tornhout was charged with the crime, he didn't do it and Esther knows it because she saw who shot her father and it wasn't Merlin.

Response: This book has really opened my eyes to just how ugly the KKK really was. I mean, I know they had persecutes African Americans, but I had no idea how far their prejudice extending or how far they would go to try and drive those that deemed as unAmerican from their midst. That's another thing, the KKK only considered White Protestant to be 100% American, but those they persecuted had been this country for decades and in most cases so had their fathers and their grandfathers. The evil and ugliness that were dealt by this organization and any of those like it is just gut-wretching to me.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin

by Lloyd Moss

Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman

Publisher:Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1995 32 pages

Genre: Picture books, Music and Counting

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: This is about musical instruments and it is about counting, but it tells it in poetry form.

Response: I liked this book very much

Your Dad was Just Like You

Written and Illustrated by Dolores Johnson

Publisher: Macmillian Publishing Company 1993

Genre: Picture books, and Family Life

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary:This is the story of a little boy who is having problems with his father and he wants to live with his grandfather. His grandfather tells him about his father when he was a boy and Peter learns to understand why his father was so upset when he knocked the purple cup on his father’s dresser. Peter goes home and fixes the cup and apologizes to his father.

Response: I liked this book. It deals with real life and teaches a lesson.

Yo! Yes?

Written and Illustrated by Chris Raschka

Publisher: Orchard Books 1993 32 pages

Genre:Picture book, Humor and Friendship

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: This is the story of two strangers that meet on the street and with very few words, they become friends. It also shows that people who are different, can still communicate and be friends.

Response: I like this story very much. The thing that I like most about this book is the principle behind it. If more people could exercise the same understanding as these two boys, the world would be a much better place.

Tuesday

Written and Illustrated by David Weisner

Publisher: Clarion Books 1991 32 pages

Genre: Wordless Picture book, Fantasy and Adventure

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary:This is a wordless picture book about the magical nature of Tuesday nights that allows frog to fly on their lilypads and at the end of the book, pigs fly on the next Tuesday.

Response: This is a wonderful book and very funny. The illustrations are fantastic.

Time Flies

Written and Illustrated by Eric Rohmann

Publisher: Crown Publishers 1994

Genre: Wordless Picture book, and Nature

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary:This is a wordless picture book. A bird flies into a museum to get out of the storm. As she flies through the museum, the dinosaurs seem to come to life and the bird flies among them until one of them tries to eat the bird, and it turns back into a skeleton and the bird flies away.

Response: This is a good story, but there is a question that the book raises that I am not sure about. Is the bird dreaming, is she traveling in time or is she remembering her ancestors?

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain

Written and Illustrated by Peter Sis

Publisher: Frances Foster Books 2007 56 pages

Genre: Picture book and History

Reading Level: Ages 9-12

Summary: This book is based on the experiences of Peter Sis as he grew in Czechoslovakia when it was under Soviet rule. At first he didn’t question what he was told, but then he started questioning the State. He quietly protested against the state through his drawings. He even formed his own rock band, though rock ‘n roll had been forbidden by the State.

Ideas for Activities: (optional)

Study about Lenin and the USSR.

Response: This book is absolutely wonderful. It really makes you think about the difference between democracy and communism.

The Three Pigs

Written and Illustrated by David Weisner

Publisher: Clarion Books 2001 40 pages

Genre: Picture book, and Fairy Tales

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary:This is a very original look at the classic story of the Three Little Pigs. In this version, the pigs are blown out of the story by the big, bad wolf and all three of them go into the nursery rhyme of Hey, diddle diddle. When they left, the cat with the fiddle followed them out. They went into another story and rescue a dragon from the knight. Then all of them, the pigs, the cat and the dragon, went back into the three pigs’ story and the dragon scared the wolf away and they all lived happily ever after.

Response: I love this book. It’s funny and I especially like the twist in the story.

The Serpent Came to Gloucester

by M T Anderson

Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline

Publisher: Candlewick Press 2005 40 pages

Genre: Picture book, Historical Fiction, and Myths

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary:This is based on a true story of when a Sea serpant came to the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts. People came from all over to see the serpent and some came to try and capture it. None of them succeeded. The next year, they came back and once they thought that had it, but it turned out to be a giant mackerel fish. Soon after, they saw the serpent playing in the waves. The sea serpent left and was never seen again.

Response: I liked this book. It reminded me of Moby Dick.

The Missing Mitten Mystery

Written and Illustrated by Steven Kellogg

Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers 2000

Genre: Picture book, Humor and Mystery

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: A little girl loses her mitten into the snow and it is the fifth one that winter. With the help of her dog Oscar, she retraces her steps and finds it in the snowman that she helped make earlier in the day.

Response: I liked this book very much. It was cute and showed deductive reasoning by the protagonist.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Written and Illustrated by Brian Selznick

Publisher: Scholastic Press 2007 511 pages

Genre: Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Mystery

Reading Level: Ages 9-12

Winner of the Caldecott Award 2007

Summary: This story is about a orphan, Hugo Cabret, that maintains the clocks in the train station in Paris after his uncle disappears. He meets Georges Melies and his goddaughter Isabelle when he is caught stealing from Georges’ toy booth. To punish him for it, Hugo is forced to work in the toy booth, fixing the broken toys. While he is fixing the toys, he manages to steal small gears to fix the automaton, which Hugo’s father was working on before he died and is somehow connected to Georges because he is convinced that Hugo stole the notebook. With the help of Isabelle, Hugo gets his notebook back from Georges because Georges took from Hugo and together they fix the automaton, but it only causes more questions because it draws a picture of a bullet going into the eye of the Man in the Moon, but it also writes the signature of Georges Milies. This convinces that Isabelle that Hugo stole the machine from her godfather. Hugo and Isabelle discover some pictures drawn by Georges, which were hidden in an armoire. Georges finds them with the drawings and destroys the drawing. Hugo, through his friendship with Etienne, does some research at the Film Academy library and discovers that Georges Melies was one of the first filmmakers. Through the help of Monsieur Tabard, one of Etienne’s professors at the Film Academy, they learn the story of Georges Melies’ film career. When the war came, his film company was ruined and Georges destroyed everything and has forced to sell his films to a company that melted them down into shoe heels, so he opens his toy booth and forbade his wife to ever talk to it about it. Georges and his wife adopts Hugo and he becomes a magician, which is his dream.

Ideas for Activities: (optional)

Discuss the early film industry or plan a unit of study centered around it.

Discuss the moral implications of stealing.

Response: I loved this book. The plot is very complex, the characters very well written and the illustrations are the best part. They draw you into the story better than the writing alone could have done.

The Hello, Goodbye Window

Hello, Goodbye Window

by Norton Juster

Illustrated by Chris Raschka

Publisher:Hyperion Books for Children 2005 32 pages

Genre:Picture book, Fantasy, and Family Life

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary:This is the story of a little girl who stays with her grandparents while her parents are at work. There is a special window called the hello, goodbye window. It is a magical window. She tells of all things that you can do with this window and about her grandparents.

Response: I liked this book very much. It makes me wish that I had experiences like this with my grandparents, but they lived too far from me and now they have all passed away. The illustrations are very well done.

The Green Truck Garden Giveaway

by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Illustrated by Alec Gillman

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1997

Genre: Picture book and Gardening

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary:This is a story about a pickup truck that goes around teaches people how to plant gardens and how to take care of them. As the people work in their gardens, they learn to like it and soon they are driving their Green Truck Garden Giveaway, truck.

Response:I liked this book. It has a good story and it serves an almanac for gardening.

The Glorious Flight

The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot

Written and Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen

Publisher: Puffin Books 1983 40 pages

Genre: Picture book and History

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary:Louis Bleriot was the first man to fly across the English Channel. This book tells the story of the series of flying machines before he got one that worked successfully.

Response: I never knew about this man until I read this book. I learned a lot.

The Stray Dog

Written and Illustrated by Marc Simont from a true story by Reiko Sassa

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers 2001 32 pages

Genre: Picture book, and Family Life

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: A stray dog meets a family who is on a picnic. The family falls in love with him and even name him Willy. They go home without him thinking that he must belong to someone, but when they come back the next week, they seen Willy being chased by a dog and they rescue him by saying he is their dog and they take him home.

Response: I liked this story very much. It is a cute story and the illustrations are very good.

Song and Dance Man

by Karen Ackerman

Illustrated by Stephen Gammell

Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Inc. 1988

Genre: Picture book, and Music

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: This is about a grandfather who was a song and dance man on the vaudeville stage. When his grandchildren visit, he takes them into the attic, takes his hat, vest and tap shoes out of his chest and dancing for his grandchildren.

Response: I really liked this book.

Show Way

Show Way

by Jacqueline Woodson

Illustrated by Hudson Talbott

Publisher:G P Putnam’s sons 2005 48 pages

Genre: Picture book and Genealogy

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: This story follows the history of the women in her family, that starts with slavery and goes Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement, up to the present day. It tells the story of how the slaves used to use quilts to show other slaves the road to freedom. After slavery was abolished, they used those same kind of quilt blocks to remember where they came from and to give them courage for the future.

Response:I liked this story because I am a family history nut myself and love hearing about other people’s family history.

Probuditi!

Written and Illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg

Publisher: Houghton Mufflin Company 2006

Genre:Picture book, Humor, and Fantasy

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: This is the story about Calvin. Calvin is a little boy who gets tickets to see a magician for his birthday. The magician was hypnotizing people and bringing them out of it by saying ‘Probuditi!’ He goes home and hypnotized his sister and made her believe that she was a dog. After a while, he was tired of it but he couldn’t remember the word to end it. So he put his sister in his wagon and he and his friend took her across the town to see the magician. They didn’t find him, so they took her back home. They got her to wake up by banging trash lids and throwing a bucket of water on her. It worked. He was sent to his room for making his sister cry and he didn’t get any of his birthday dinner or birthday cake.

Response: I liked this book. It was very funny. It also teaches the consquences of our actions.

Peppe the Lamplighter

by Elisa Bartone

Illustrated by Ted Lewin

Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books 1993 32 pages

Genre: Picture book, Historical Fiction, and Family Life

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: This is a story about Peppe who goes to work as a lamplighter to help support his family. His father acts ashamed of him at first and so eventually Peppe doesn’t light the lamps and one of his sisters has not come home. He lights the lamps and finds his sister under one of the lampposts. He learned how important his job really is and his father is happy about Peppe’s job.

Response: I liked this book because it is true to life and Peppe and his father both learn a valuable lesson.

Ox-cart Man

Ox-Cart Man

by Donald Hall

Illustrated by Barbara Cooney

Publisher: The Viking Press 1979

Genre:Historical Fiction, and Picture book

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Summary: This is the story of a farmer and his family and how they make and grow products to sell at market in the fall.

Response: I liked this book.

Owl Moon

by Jane Yolen

Illustrated by John Schoenherr

Publisher:Philomel books 1987 32 pages

Genre: Picture book, Family Life and Nature

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: A father and son go out owling and find a Great Horned Owl

Ideas for Activities: (optional)

Study about Great Horned owls and other owls as well.

Response: This is a wonderful story and it shows courage and patience on the part of the child.

Mouse Went Out to Get a Snack

Mouse Went out to get a snack

by Lyn Rossiter McFarland

Illustrated by Jim McFarland

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux 2005 32 pages

Genre: Picture book, Humor and Counting

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary:This is the story of a mouse that leaves his hole to go get a snack. The snack consisted of 1 piece of cheese, 2 plump plums, 3 baby carrots, 4 fried chicken legs, 5 ears of corn, 6 tasty tacos, 7 assorted jelly beans, 8 colorful cupcakes, 9 jolly gingerbread men, and 10 slices of chocolate cake. Just as he gets all on a plate, the cat wakes, and he throws it up in the air and the plate falls on the cat and the 1 piece of cheese goes into the mouse’s hole.

Response: I loved this book. It teaches counting in a very funny way.

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

Author: Carole Boston Weatherford

Illustrated by Kad

ir Nelson

Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children 2006 48 pages

Genre:Picture book, and Historical Fiction

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: This is the story of Harriet Tubman, her transition from being a slave and then running away with the Lord’s guidance and then she went back and helped other people, including her own family, on their path to freedom. She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad and she went back many times to led slaves to freedom.

Ideas for Activities: (optional)

Have the children study about the Underground Railroad and slavery.

Response: I liked this book very much. I liked the fact that they mentioned the role of God in her escape and in her journeys, helping others to freedom.

Make Way for Ducklings

Written and Illustrated by Robert McCloskey

Publisher: Puffin Books 1941 76 pages

Genre: Picture book, Action and Adventure

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Mallard are trying to find a place to find their nest. The first place is no good, due to the fact that there are no many bicycles around. They finally find a island in the Charles River that is quiet enough to hatch their ducklings. Mr. Mallard decides to explore the rest of the river and tells that he will meet in a week in the Public Garden. Mrs. Mallard teaches her children all they will need to know and when she is satisfied with their progress, she leads them off the island and start for the Public Gardens. With the help of a policeman, they reach the Public Garden in safety.

Response: I like this story. It’s cute and I especially like that the policeman help the ducks.

Kitten's First Full Moon

Kitten’s First Full Moon

Written and Illustrated by Kevin Henkes

Publisher: Greenwillow books 2004 40 pages

Genre: Fantasy and Humor

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary:This is the story of a kitten who sees his first full moon and thinks that it is a bowl of milk in the sky. No matter how far we walks after the moon, he never reaches it. He goes home and finds a real bowl of milk waiting for him.

Response: I liked this story very much. The kitten has a child-like innocence that is truly adorable

Jumanji

Written and Illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg

Publisher: Houghton Mufflin Company 1981 32 pages

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Mystery

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: Peter and Judy found a game in the park and brought it home. This is a very unusual game. Peter goes first and gets the instruction ‘Lion attack, go back two spaces,’ and a lion appears on top of the piano. The lion chases Peter upstairs and then gets his head stuck under the bed. The game also produces monkeys in the kitchen, a monsoon in the living room, and a lost jungle guide sitting on the doll house. Peter gets bitten by a tsetse fly and gets sleeping sickness. Next is a stampede of rhinos, a python on the mantle, molten lava comes from the fireplace, and hits the water from the monsoon and fills the room with steam. Judy reaches Jumanji and everything disappears. They grabbed the game and running, took it back to the park. They started a puzzle after they got home, but fell asleep before they could finish; they were waken by their parents and after changing into their pajamas and having dinner, they were working on their puzzle, they looked out the window and see Daniel and Walter Budwing. Danny has a long thin box under his arm.

Response: I had never read this book before, although I have seen the movie. I liked it very much. The illustrations in this book are incredible.

Island Boy

Written and Illustrated by Barbara Cooney

Publisher: Viking kestrel 1988 38 pages

Genre: Picture book and Story book

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: This is about Matthais, the youngest of 12 children, who grew on an island. He went to sea in his uncle’s boat, the Six brothers, as a cabin boy. He sailed on the Six Brothers for 15 years. By this time, Matthais was the master of the ship. He moved back to the island and fixed up the house, as his parents had left by the island by this time. He married and brought his bride to the island. They had 3 daughters. The girls grew up and married and left the island. Then, Hannah, his wife died. He stayed on the island even after that because his youngest daughter, Jane sent her son, Little Matthais, every summer. Soon thereafter, Jane’s husband died and she and Little Matthais came to stay on the island for good. As he was bringing the produce that grew on the island to the mainland, he was lost in a storm and was never seen again. People came from all over to the island for the funeral.

Response: I liked this book. It has a very sweet story.

Monday, May 31, 2010

Into the Forest

Written and Illustrated by Anthony Brown

Publisher: Candlewick Press 2004

Genre:Picture books, Family, and Fairy Tales

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: This story about a little boy who wakes to find that his father is gone and his mother doesn’t seem to know when he is coming back. She sends him to take a cake to his grandmother. His mother tells him to take the long way around the forest instead of the shorter path through the forest. He takes the shorter path so that he will be home when his father comes home. When he reaches his grandmother’s, his father is there and when they get home, his mother is very happy to see them.

Response: I liked this story. It is very much like Red Riding Hood.

Hush! A Thai Lullaby

Written by Minfong Ho

Illustrated by Holly Meade

Publisher: Orchard Books 1996

Genre:Picture books, and Bedtime Stories

Reading Level: Baby- Preschool

Summary: This book is based on a lullaby from Thailand. It tells the story of a mother who has just gotten her baby and she goes around quieting all of the animals around her, so that they will not wake up baby, but by the time, she quieted everything and gotten to sleep herself, the baby has woken up.

Response: I like this book. It has a nice rhythm to it and the ending is very funny and very realistic.

Henry's Freedom Box

Henry’s Freedom Box: A true story from the Underground Railr

Written by Ellen Levine

Illustrated by Kadir Nelson

Publisher: Scholastic Press 2007

Genre: Picture book, History, Prejudice and Racism

Reading Level:Ages 4-8

Summary: This book tells the true story of Henry “Box” Brown. Henry was a slave who decided to run away from his master after his wife and children were sold away from him. With the help of James and Dr. Smith, he mailed himself to Philadelphia to friends of Dr. Smith in Philadelphia.

Response: I learned a lot from this book. I knew a little bit of the story of Henry “Box” Brown, but I didn’t know the reason that he decided to mail himself. This book also makes me want to learn more about Henry “Box” Brown.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Grandfather's Journey

Grandfather’s Journey

Written and Illustrated by Allen Say

Publisher: Houghton Mufflin Co. 1993

Genre: Picture books, Historical Fiction, and Family Life

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: This story is about a Japanese family and most specifically, about the author’s grandfather. It is about their family history, about how his grandfather went to the US and traveled all over. He returned to Japan to marry his childhood sweetheart and then returned to California. When his daughter was nearly grown, they returned to Japan. The daughter married and the author was born and then World War II started. When the author was nearly grown, he went to California and then he feels that he truly understands his grandfather.

Response: I liked this book, especially since it is based on true events.

Flyaway Girl

Written and illustrated by Ann Grifalconi

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1992

Genre:Picture books and Family Life

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary:This is the story of a young girl in an African village who is helping her mother by finding dark and light reeds for a basket. She finds the light-colored reeds easily and by listening to the sounds of the earth, she finds the dark-colored reeds.

Response: I liked this book because of the mother’s attitude. She recognize that a child’s assets should be utilized instead of suppressed.

Don't Let The Pigeon Drive the Bus

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

Written and Illustrated by Mo Willems

Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children 2003 43 pages

Genre: Picture book, and Humor

Reading Level: Baby-Preschool

Summary:This book is about a pigeon that is begging you as the reader to give him permission to drive the bus, even after the bus driver has asked not to let him.

Response: I loved this book. I was laughing the entire time.

Daisy Comes Home

Written and Illustrated by Jan Brett

Publisher:G P Putnam’s sons 2002

Genre: Picture books, Action, Adventure and Self-Esteem and Self-Respect

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary:

Daisy is a chicken who is picked by all the chickens, and she has to sleep in the mud of the henhouse floor. One day, she gets tired of being picked on and tired of sleeping in the mud, so she sleeps in one of the market basket. She gets swept down the river and meets lots of different creature and has to defend herself against them. In the morning, Mei Mei, her owner noticed that she is missing and goes looking for her. Daisy had been captured by a fisherman, but when she sees Mei Mei, she escapes and Mei Mei takes her home. When the rest of the chickens try to pick on her, she uses the defenses that she used on the creatures that she met on her trip and they stopped picking on her and she could sleep on the perch.

Response: I liked this book very much. Not only is it a good story, but it also covers the subject of bullying in a very creative way.

Coming on Home Soon

Written Jacqueline Woodson

Illustrated by E B Lewis

Publisher: G P Putnam’s Sons 2004

Genre:Picture book, Family Life and Historical Fiction

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: This story is based during World War II. Ada Ruth’s mama goes to Chicago to find work on the railroad. Ada Ruth lives with her grandma while her mama is away. They wait for a letter, but none comes. Ada Ruth continues to write to her mama. They adopt a kitten. At last, a letter comes and Mama comes home.

Response: This is a good book.

Charlie Needs a Cloak

"Charlie Needs a Cloak”

Written and Illustrated by Tome dePaola

Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks 1973

Genre: Picture books, and Family.

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: Charlie is a shepherd that needs a cloak. So he sheared his sheep, carded the wool, spun it into yarn and dyed it red. When the yarn was dry, he put into loom and wove it into cloth. Then he cut the cloth and made it into a cloak.

Response:This story is wonderful. It shows you the process of how clothes are made.

Chanticleer and the Fox

Written Geoffrey Chaucer

Illustrator: and adapted by Barbara Cooney

Publisher: Thomas Y Crowell Company 1958

Genre: Picture books and Fables

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Summary: There was an old widow who just managed to keep herself and her daughters alive, through the things that she produced on her farm. She had a rooster called Chanticler and 7 hens. Chanticleer had a dream that a beast that looked like a fox entered his yard and he nearly died of fear at the sight of him. One day, a fox got into the yard and he tricks Chanticleer into sings with his neck extended and his eyes closed. As he was singing, the fox jumped forward, grabbed him by the neck and took him into the forest. Every creature and the woman and her daughters ran after the fox. Chanticleer tricks the fox into speaking to them and when he opens his mouthl, Chanticleer flies into a tree. The fox tries to get Chanticleer to come down, but Chanticleer doesn’t listen and the fox left and Chanticleer taken back to the farmyard.

Never trust in flattery.

Response: I liked this book and it has a wonderful moral.