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Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Stone Soup by Marcia Brown AND Jon J. Muth
Today we compare and contrast a 1947 version with a 2003 version of the same story. We discuss how war in a region might easily make folks afraid of strangers, how soldiers attack their problem vs. monks, whether or not this is a technical trickster tale, and how that person who just gave salt got away with murder.
Fusenews: “Someday I’ll go to Winnipeg to win a peg-leg pig”
When two people sent me this link I assumed that everyone must have already seen it. But when it didn’t show up on PW Children’s Bookshelf I decided that perhaps I might have a scoop. At the very least, it appears that when people think Nick Cave meets Dr. Seuss, I’m the logical person to […]
Fusenews: King Friday the XIII gave the rehearsal dinner speech
Things that I have difficulty understanding: The rules of soccer. How to work an f-stop on a camera (or what it even means). The French language. The fact that actors Patton Oswalt and Tunde Adebimpe appear to be in a movie that is filming right now and is going by the title . . . […]
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