Tales from the Marble Mountain
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781419115899
Subjects: Short stories; Short Stories (single author); Fiction; Fiction - General
Description: Bear leaves behind his mother and father and home on the Marble Mountain to travel across the great desert in search of his fortune.  Along the way he meets Goat, Ostrich, and Owl, and the four of them become great friends.  This is a story filled with adventure and wonder, and perhaps a commentary or two about the way humans treat animals and each other.
Notes: Hugh Gardner's interpretation of life among sentient forest animals is stunning but not original.  Nevertheless, a very entertaining story in the tradition of Winnie the Pooh, Watership Down, or Richard Scarry.
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