Description
Very Good dust jacket illustrated with three men and a horse, Some soiling to edges. Very Good binding is white paper over boards. The book cover and dust jacket have the same illustration. Light soiling to edges, rippling along the spine, end paper show toning. Color illustrations throughout by Glen Rounds. The “1” is present on the number line on copyright page which is the designation of first edition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.7″ tall x 6.3″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
The Foolish People are a tribe the Apaches made up so they could tell jokes about them.
One day Fat Fool, Little Fool and Fool About from Two Dog Mountain come down to the flat lands. They do not know why the flat land men sit on “”big animals” but they want to be “big men” too. Fool About says Little Fool should run a race-against a horse!
And Little Fool wins! Not foolish enough to look a gift horse in the mouth, the three struggle to get on, sit on, ride on, stay on and finally unglue Fool About from the hilariously harried horse.
Drawing upon the folklore of the Apache Indians, Betty Baker retells these fresh funny tales especially for beginning readers. And Glen Rounds’s rollicking illustrations capture all the slapstick nonsense of three outrageously Foolish People.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
BETTY BAKER’s many fine books weave the legends, the unsung history and elaborate cultures of the Southwest Indians into stirring and sensitive stories written with a deep respect for the Indian way of life. For young readers she has written Little Runner of the Longhouse. Among her books for older children are At the Center of the World, A Stranger and Afraid and The Spirit Is Willing, whose heroine rebels against life in an Arizona mining town in the 1880’s. She has won the Western Heritage Award for the outstanding Western juvenile book twice: in 1963 for Killer-of- Death, and in 1970 for And One Was a Wooden Indian.
About the illustrator (from the dust jacket)
GLEN ROUNDS is one of the most popular illustrators of children’s picture books in the United States, and the prolific author-artist of numerous books of his own. Among these are: The Day the Circus Came to Lone Tree, O! Paul, the Mighty Logger, The Cowboy Trade and The Blind Colt. Glen Rounds grew up in the West but now makes his home in North Carolina.
