Visiting Mother Midose. Harris J.

Writer and journalist Joel Cundler Harris lived in the American south all his life and has heard many Negro fairy tales since childhood. The artist Gennady Kalinovsky, the illustrator of this book, managed to perfectly convey the crafty, with a cunning and worldly wisdom, the atmosphere of these fairy tales. Their funny heroes - wise guy brother rabbit, simple -minded brother foxes, the kindest mother Midose with girls and many others - come to life in stories that the old uncle Rimus tells the boy Joel. In the next series of fairy tales of our old acquaintances, new adventures. Together with the brother Rabbit, we will learn how to fish in a well, find out why the brother of the Opesum has a bare tail, and visit Madushka Midous.