A smart wife outsmarts-the-animals folktale story. [return][return]Can I just say that I *HATE* the stories that have a man identified by his profession and a woman identified by her marital relationship to him? "The farmer and his wife", "the lighthouse keeper and his wife", etc., etc. I expect it from books written ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO but why does it keep appearing? [return][return]Anyway, there was nothing to recommend this one, honestly. ( )

A smart wife outsmarts-the-animals folktale story.

Can I just say that I *HATE* the stories that have a man identified by his profession and a woman identified by her marital relationship to him? "The farmer and his wife", "the lighthouse keeper and his wife", etc., etc. I expect it from books written ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO but why does it keep appearing?

Anyway, there was nothing to recommend this one, honestly. ( )

FROM THE BOOK COVER:
Every day, Mr. Grinling rowed out to the lighthouse, and every day Mrs. Grinling cooked him a delicious lunch and sent it to him in a basket on their own cable system. But the greedy sea gulls wanted that lunch too, and Mrs. Grinling had to use all her cunning to find a way of making sure that the lighthouse keeper got his lunch. ( )