Malcolm Carrick (1946–2012)
Autor(a) de Happy Jack: A Folktale (An I Can Read book)
Obras por Malcolm Carrick
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1946
- Data de falecimento
- 2012
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Wales
- Local de nascimento
- Cardiff, Wales, UK
- Educação
- Beckenham Art School
Ravensbourne College of Art
Chelsea School of Art
London School of Film Technique - Ocupações
- children's book author
illustrator
songwriter
artist
Membros
Críticas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Membros
- 100
- Popularidade
- #190,120
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 25
"The Cuckoo": Since the cuckoo is a sign of spring, why not keep a cuckoo all year long so that it is always spring. Alas, the boy watching it realizes it is unhappy and lets it go, so spring goes away as well.
"The Marriage Tale"
"The Lazy Farmer's Tale": He decides to let his cheeses roll downhill to the market, but they don't manage to get there.
"The Miller's Tale": To shorten the time of his journey, the miller decides to carry his sack of grain as he rides home on his horse rather than have the horse carry both him and the sack. Unfortunately it doesn't work. This is like the Chelmite who carries his burden as he rides on his horse in order to lighten his horse's load.
"The Alms Tale": When the priest wants the farmers of Gotham to donate money for Lent he realizes that they are the poorest people there and so the alms are redistibuted amongst them.
"The Blacksmith's Tale": To get rid of wasps, he burns down his forge.
"The Four Silly Brothers": Everytime they try to count themselves one of them seems to be missing. Along comes a gentleman who hits all four of them.
"The Hare": When the townsfolk realized that there isn't enough time for Jack, who can run almost as fast as a hare, to get their rent money to the squire before it is due, they attach the money to a hare. Even though the squire never gets the rent, he is so amused by this that he never tells them.
"The Wives' Tale": The wives explain how they save money.
"The Sack of Grain": While two men are arguing about whose sheep should have the right of way when they plan to bring the across a bridge, the miller demonstrates how silly they are fighting over nothing by emptying his sack of grain into the river.
"The Cheese"
"The Fish Tale"
"The End Tale": "This tale is too silly for words: so I haven't written any!"… (mais)