Here’s a folktale with a twist: Tompert uses tangrams, a traditional “visual aid” employed by Chinese storytellers, to spin a tale about two shape-changing fox fairies. Seven “tans” (standard-sized pieces of a square) are arranged and rearranged to represent various characters in the story. The fox fairies vie to outdo each other–the first one becomes a rabbit, the other a dog who chases him, and so on–but when the two chase each other right into danger, they finally have to set their competition aside and pull together. Parker’s graceful, impressionistic illustrations have a gentle Oriental flavor, and the constantly changing tangram configurations add a novel touch. A traceable tangram is provided at the end for do-it-yourselfers. Written by Ann Tompert and illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker.
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