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[Eisworth]

This book was lying around my sister-in-law's house looking lonely, so I picked it up to comfort it. It's a collection of African folktales.

It was interesting reading --- I thought the Brothers Grimm were disturbing, but all they had to worry about were wolves. I think 80% of the stories in this collection involved someone getting eaten --- by lions, hyenas, and even cannibals.

Best Story Title: The Grandmother Who Was Kind to a Smelly Girl

Best Moral: Parents must love their children even if the children smell very bad.

I'm not exactly sure for whom this book was written (well, other than fans of the Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency) because it seems a little too simple for adults, but God help the kid who reads these stories before bedtime.
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Todd Eisworth
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Ohio University

[jeffp]

There are so many things wrong with that review.
--jeffp