Title: A well-meaning curiosity
Review: My mother used to tell me this story when I was a child, and I expected a book that would let my grandchildren know the lively tale. This sparsely-illustrated 15-page edition isn't it. The subtitle proves to be "A Folk Tale Re-Told in Gullah," and both the forward and the story itself (which begins with asides about "ancestors who were slaves brought from Africa" and the "strange and beautiful language" spoken by Epaminondas and his relatives) are self-consciously politically correct. It would be difficult for the non-Gullah-speaking child to follow this telling ("Yent oonuh fuh knows how fuh tote kek?") -- and frankly rather tedious for any child at all. I doubt any real-life child would ask to have it read to him twice, regardless of his fluency in Gullah.
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