Reviews for Of kings and fools

The average rating for Of kings and fools based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-10-01 00:00:00 Rick Cohen When the local water hole dries up, Lion and Elephant set to work digging a new well. Rabbit, on the other hand, had no interest in doing the work - she just wants to enjoy the water. When that doesn't work out, the sly creature embarks on a series of trade-offs, exchanging "this for that," and eventually finding herself back at the water hole. Will her manipulations be rewarded? I was mostly unimpressed by this retelling of a folktale from the Tonga people of Zambia and Zimbabwe, which Aardema notes was first published in her 1973 collection, Behind the Back of the Mountain: Black Folktales from Southern Africa . The narrative was fairly bland, and Victoria Chess's illustrations seemed somewhat precious, and vaguely out of place. I wavered between two and three stars, but eventually settled on three, given my fondness for Aardema's body of work.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-21 00:00:00 Thomas Brooks a solid intro to specious lawsuits for the modern child?