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Title: More True Lies: 18 Tales for You to Judge by George Shannon ISBN: 0-688-17643-7 Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A different kind of word play
Comment: Normally, people take "word play" to mean puns. This 64-page book features 18 tales from far corners of the earth--Japan, and the Middle East, China, France and Serbia, India and Africa--offering a different kind of word play. In each one, a central character says something that is at once the truth and a lie.
The last story, for example, tells of four boys in Suriname two of whom bragged that their respective fathers were the best traders in town. The third, however, smiled and said that his father had them beat and the fourth boy agreed: He had with one ear of corn purchased a cow, a horse and a donkey. The father had indeed started with one ear of corn, and had indeed purchased a cow, a horse and a donkey--but not all at once, as the other boys supposed. Rather, he had planted the corn ear, sold his crop, bought a cow, sold it and bought a horse and sold it and bought a donkey.
Similarly, another tale speaks of a poet named Mutanabbi who passed by Zubeida's house one day and decided to return that evening to propose that they be married. Halfway home, he encountered a handsome young man who was on his way to see Zubeida, "the most beautiful woman in the city," whom he also wanted to marry. Mutanabbi was afraid of losing his chance, so he told the young man that he had just moments ago seen Zubeida kissing a wealthy man. The young man left, feeling lost. After learning that Mutanabbi had married Zubeida, he accused the former of lying. After all, if Zubeida had really kissed a wealthy man, why would she have chosen Mutanabbi? Why, the wealthy man she kissed was her father, of course.
Another story features a Muslim holy man on the island of Celebes, who found a dark cave and crawled inside to escape from warring enemies. "If it hadn't been for the spider," he told his friends afterwards, "I surely would have been caught and killed." No one believed him, of course. But he had spoken the truth along with a lie. The spider had spun a web over the mouth of the cave, leading the holy man's enemies to believe that no one could possibly be inside. The man, however, had neglected to tell his friends was how the spider saved him.
(This particular tale reminds me of the Jewish tale of David, who as a boy had questioned why God made spiders. Unlike the Muslim tale, however, the Midrash explains that God gave even the smallest creature a purpose. When David was grown, King Saul became angry with David and tried to kill him. David fled and hid in a cave. A spider spun his web across the cave's mouth. That night, soldiers passed the save. King Saul reasoned that no man could hide there without tearing the web. And David thanked God for making spiders.)
From this book, children learn that different traditions are often similar. They also learn to carefully examine "facts." Things presented as truth may compose only part of the picture. Alyssa A. Lappen
Rating: 5
Summary: Laughing Story
Comment: More True Lies has 18 awesome tales that will tingle you. Once you start reading, you will never want to stop. More True Lies is the best story I know. My favorite is number 5, because a person dresses like a bandit and it really was a girl. That's what made me laugh. I like the whole truth because it is kind of weird reading a lie. That's why you should read this book. It's fantastic. I hope Shannon makes another book!
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Title: More Stories to Solve: Fifteen Folktales from Around the World by George Shannon ISBN: 0380732610 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Still More Stories to Solve by George Shannon ISBN: 0688147437 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 23 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Stories to Solve by George Shannon ISBN: 0380732602 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald J. Sobol ISBN: 0590447874 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Five Minute Mysteries: 37 Challenging Cases of Murder and Mayhem for You to Solve by Ken Weber ISBN: 0894716905 Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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