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In the Georgia swamplands and plantations, a cast of anthropomorphic animals enacts daily rituals of pursuit, trickery and escape. In this pre-Loony Toons world of sassy, talking beasts, Brer Rabbit is the hero -- duelling both verbally and physically with those who would eat him, and perpetually in the monstrous shadow of the Tar Baby. The casual publication in 1877 of "The Tar Baby" by Joel Chandler Harris, found Harris his literary vocation. In the following years he developed his own plantation mythology in a series of volumes, narrated by "Uncle Remus", telling colloquial tales of the wily hero Brer Rabbit (an obvious precursor of Bugs Bunny) and his clashes with the villain, Brer Fox. Tar Baby is a collection of some of the finest of these often surreal and grotesque stories, in the original African American dialect, and is presented as a classic of American literature for both adult readers and children of all ages.
| ISBN | 1840680202 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9781840680201
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 204 | | Publisher | Creation Books | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Creation Books | | Series ISSN | 02 | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Creation Classics Portable S. | | Publication date | 03 Jan 2000 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Illustrator | Deryk, Thomas | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Library of Congress | PS | | Spine width (mm) | 10 | | DEWEY | 813.4 | | Academic level | Children (6-12) | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Interest age | From 8 To 12 | | Pages | 160 | | Reading age | From 12 To 14 |
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| I | | The Little Boy Initiated | | 7 | | II | | The Wonderful Tar-Baby | | 12 | | III | | Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace | | 16 | | IV | | Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Fox | | 21 | | V | | The Story of the Deluge | | 25 | | VI | | Mr. Rabbit Deceives Mr. Fox | | 30 | | VII | | Mr. Fox is Again Victimized | | 37 | | VIII | | Mr. Fox and Mr. Buzzard | | 44 | | IX | | Miss Cow Falls a Victim | | 49 | | X | | Mr. Terrapin Appears | | 56 | | XI | | Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure | | 63 | | XII | | Old Man Tarrypin | | 69 | | XIII | | The Fate of Mr. Wolf | | 73 | | XIV | | The Deceitful Frogs | | 79 | | XV | | Mr. Fox Goes A-Hunting | | 83 | | XVI | | Mr. Rabbit a Good Fisherman | | 87 | | XVII | | Mr. Rabbit and the Butter | | 92 | | XVIII | | Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match | | 99 | | XIX | | The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow | | 105 | | XX | | Mr. Rabbit and his Meat | | 112 | | XXI | | Mr. Rabbit Matched Again | | 119 | | XXII | | About the Little Rabbits | | 123 | | XXIII | | Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear | | 128 | | XXIV | | Mr. Bear and Mr. Bullfrog | | 133 | | XXV | | How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Tail | | 139 | | XXVI | | Mr. Terrapin Shows Strength | | 144 | | XXVII | | The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox | | 150 |
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