Monday, 14 January 2008

Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby, here on Seligor's Castle

Joel Chandler Harris The Tales of Uncle Remus were wrote by Joel Chandler Harris and were the largest single collection of Afro-American folktales ever collected and published. Between 1896 and 1918  he published around 260 tales in eight volumes, all  of them black folktales.
I absolutely adored the tales of Brer Rabbit and my
most
Joel Chandler    favourite of all of them was and still is Brer Rabbit and the
Tar    Harris             Baby. I used to get my mum or dad to read it to me over and over again, then when my sisters were old enough, I had them, read it as well, otherwise I cried untilThe tales of Brer Rabbit through the mouth of Uncle Remus they felt sorry for me.
Yes, I know I was a naughty girl, but I did so love the story. I hope you find it just as good. It mightn't be exactly the same as the one Uncle Remus wrote but it is how I remember it.

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