Who's Got Game?: The Ant or the Grasshopper?, The Lion or the Mouse?, Poppy or the Snake?

by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison

Who's Got Game (Collections and Selections — omnibus, 1-3)

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Three of Aesop's original fables are opened up and their moralistic endings re-imagined: the victim might not lose; the timid get a chance to become strong; the fool can gain insight; the powerful may lose their grip. Anything can happen in a play on these classic fables.

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The Aesop's fable with hip-hop ambience. Set in what looks like NewYork City, Ant and Grasshopper spend the summer hanging out in the park, romping and rapping. Fall sets in and Ant feels the need to start gearing up for winter. While he works to prepare his home and store food, Grasshopper keeps making enjoyable music. Winter arrives and the bedraggled Grasshopper looks to Ant to provide refuge. But Ant refuses, saying he "should have known what tomorrow would bring. Then you wouldn't be begging for anything."Grasshopper declares "I'm an artist, that's what I do! You loved my music so respect me too!" The story ends not on the side of the ant, but unresolved.Who's right, who's got game: the practical one or the artist? The last page of show more Grasshopper slogging alone in the snowstorm is spooky and unsettling. show less

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Picture Books, Children's Books, Fiction and Literature
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3563 .O8749 .A6Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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