A Big Quiet House : A Yiddish Folktale from Eastern Empire Paperback - 1996
by Forest, Heather
- Used
Description
Details
- Title A Big Quiet House : A Yiddish Folktale from Eastern Empire
- Author Forest, Heather
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition; F
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 32
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher August House Publishers, Incorporated, Little Rock, AR
- Date November 25, 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 39536651-6
- ISBN 9780874836042 / 0874836042
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 11.02 x 8.53 x 0.12 in (27.99 x 21.67 x 0.30 cm)
- Ages 05 to 08 years
- Grade levels K - 3
- Reading level 770
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Jews, Folklore - Europe, Eastern
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95053739
- Dewey Decimal Code E
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First line
From the rear cover
It was cluttered with things from wall to wall.
With a tiny, cluttered house, giggling children, and a snoring wife, the poor man in this story can't get a good night's sleep. If only, he thinks, I had a big, quiet house!
He throws off his covers and goes to visit the wise old woman at the edge of the village. Surely she can help him solve his problem. And she does, but not without giving him some very nonsensical advice. "Bring a chicken into your house", she suggests. And when that doesn't work, she has him add a goat, a horse, a cow, and a sheep.
The ending of the story proves, as so many ancient folktales do, that quite often, nonsense makes the best sense of all. Susan Greenstein's bold illustrations -- white pencil on black surface with watercolor -- carry the reader through the warm interiors and peaceful nights of the shtetls of Eastern Europe.