Leopold, the Liar of Leipzig

Unpaginated. "Everyone loves Leopold, who holds court at the Leipzig zoo on Sunday afternoons and tells fantastic tales of faraway places. One day, a learned professor comes to town and gives a lecture on the real places he has been. Everyone is bored and either leaves or falls asleep. The indignant Doctor Morgenfresser shouts, Your Leopold is a liar! and has him hauled off to jail. On trial the man explains that he never claimed any of it actually happened, the people declare him Leopold the Storyteller, and he is released to tell his stories to the children of the village. While Leopold's alliterative tales are mildly entertaining, the moral is heavy-handed. The thickly painted, woodblock-style artwork, which is reminiscent of Chagall's bright colors and angular, slightly floating characters, is interesting and fits the style and location of the story well. Aviram does a nice job of contrasting the scenes of Leopold's imprisonment and trial with his stories by using drab colors for the former and bright jewel tones for the latter." - School Library Journal Keywords: CHILDREN FICTION PICTURE BOOKS FRANCINE PROSE LEOPOLD LIAR LEIPZIG ZOO SIGNED FIRST EDITION