Natalie Portman's Fables
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Academy Award-winning actress, director, producer, and activist Natalie Portman retells three classic fables and imbues them with wit and wisdom in this New York Times bestselling book.
From realizing that there is no “right” way to live to respecting our planet and learning what really makes someone a winner, the messages at the heart of Natalie Portman’s Fables are modern takes on timeless life lessons.
Told with a playful, kid-friendly voice and perfectly paired with Janna Mattia’s charming artwork, Portman’s insightful retellings of The Tortoise and the Hare, The Three Little Pigs, and Country Mouse and City Mouse are ideal for reading aloud and are sure to become beloved additions to family libraries.
An instant New York Times bestseller!
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Rhyming couplets, gross-out humor, and heavy-handed moralizing mark Portman's retellings of three classic tales. Hare leaves Tortoise behind in a "bunny-cloud stink" that "smells like when carrots come out in a poo" in the duo's classic fable. In "The Three Little Pigs," Melinda the pig "loved sodas and all types of sugars./ She'd sip as she'd pick and then flick all her boogers." And anti-materialism vibes prevail in "Country Mouse and City Mouse": "A true friend should care about how you are feeling/ Not for your gowns or that thing on your ceiling." Though Portman's values are zeitgeisty the tortoise lauds life lived "attentively;" the pigs' houses fail because they are made of takeout containers and plastic straws strained rhymes and thin humor wear (" Where's your hu-mi-li-ty?' asked Wolf that day. The one tea I care for is creamy Earl Grey' "). Mattia's sweet-faced animals, rendered in watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil, combine visuals such as chopstick-using animals and a gilded rhino horn with a bucolic, animated style reminiscent of mid-20th-century cartoons. Ages 4 6.