Cradle Book (American Readers Series)
General fiction, Folklore, fables and fairy tales, Philosophy
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
Timeless yet timely and hopeful with a dark underbelly, these fables revive a tradition running from Aesop to W.S. Merwin. With a poet&’s mastery, Craig Morgan Teicher creates strange worlds populated by animals fated for disaster and the people who… interact with them, or simply act like them, including a very sad boy who wishes he had been raised by wolves. There are also a handful of badly behaving gods, a talking tree, and a shape-shifting room.Craig Morgan Teicher is poetry editor of Publishers Weekly and a vice president on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.