The First Feud - Hardcover

Plourde, Lynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892726113 ISBN 13: 9780892726110

Publisher: Down East Books, 2003

Synopsis

The First Feud is a fable about the prehistoric feud between a mountain and the Atlantic Ocean.

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From School Library Journal:

Grade 2-4--In this fable set in Maine, Mount Katahdin and the Atlantic Ocean each boasts that it is "the most beautiful place in the North Land." When attempts to best one another fail (an icicle sent by the mountain to the ocean melts, a necklace of shells is crushed on its way to the mountain), they declare war, destroying all the land in between. "Katahdin triggered its mightiest thunderstorms, most frigid blizzards, and strongest avalanches..."; "The Atlantic fired its flooding waters, wildest waves, and harshest hurricanes...." Sollers's strong paintings give form to the feuding entities. The resolution of the story is a little forced (they can at last see one another's beauty, and "It was as if the new bond between the great mountain and the great ocean was so strong that it spread their wondrous beauty in all directions"), as is the excuse for the war in the first place. The mythic magic of Maine is better seen in Robert McCloskey's A Time of Wonder (1957) or Barbara Cooney's Miss Rumphius(1982, both Viking).--Kathleen Whalin, York Public Library, ME
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About this edition

• Publisher: Down East Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0892726113
• ISBN 13: 9780892726110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 30