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Reviewed on June 1, 1995
PreS-K This modern folktale is boisterous and full of slapstick humor, but it lacks the necessary minimum of logic that makes nonsense successful. When the farmer's wife complains to the river that it is moving too slowly, it stops and lies "still as a stone." Then the mule comes to drink and the river, in a mischievous mood, steals the mule's voice. The mule then steals the cow's voice, and such theft continues around the barnyard. The river uses the mule's hee-haw to trick...Log In or Sign Up to Read More