Gobble you up! / art, Sunita ; text, Gita Wolf.

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Wolf, Gita

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Language: English Original language: Hindi Publication details: [Chennai, India] : Tara Books, c2013.Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 32 cmISBN:

9788192317144
8192317145

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Folklore.

Summary: An adaptation of an oral Rajasthani trickster tale set to cumulative rhyme. Meet the most wily jackal in the forest: too lazy to hunt for food, he starts by tricking his friend the crane, and then proceeds to gobble up every animal he comes across. Illustrated in the Mandna traditional finger painting style, this is the first time that this art form has been used to tell a children's story.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Picture Book	NMC Library	Picture Book Collection	PZ8.1 .W84 GO 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001294379

Hindi text translated by Susheela Varadarajan.

Based on a Rajasthani folktale rendered by Sunita and Prabhat.

An adaptation of an oral Rajasthani trickster tale set to cumulative rhyme. Meet the most wily jackal in the forest: too lazy to hunt for food, he starts by tricking his friend the crane, and then proceeds to gobble up every animal he comes across. Illustrated in the Mandna traditional finger painting style, this is the first time that this art form has been used to tell a children's story.

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