Rooster Prince Book

2001 Storytelling World Award Winner. The Crown Prince of Russia thinks he is a rooster. Searching for someone who can cure him, the Czar's messenger grabs Avron who is on his way home with a chicken for the Sabbath. The Czar believes that Avron is an expert on chickens and roosters and demands that he cure his son, or else. Avron pretends he is a rooster and thus wins the confidence of the Prince. Step-by-step Avron convinces the Prince that roosters can act like people too.

School Library Journal

Gr 2-5-Based on a parable told by the great Jewish sage, Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, this story tells of Avron, a poor village boy in 18th-century Russia, who is taken by the Tsar's messenger to the palace and instructed to cure the prince of acting like a rooster. When Avron notices that the prince/rooster is aping his own actions, the peasant boy quickly realizes how to coax him into behaving like a prince again. The large, simply drawn, full-color marker-rendered illustrations-most of them spread across two pages-are uneven in quality, including several in which the faces and/or bodies of one or both of the boys are amateurishly drawn. The story is most appropriate for Jewish secular or religious-school libraries.-Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.