American Fairy Tales - The Vain Little Mouse, the Golden Bracelet, the Princess That Wore a Rabbit-Skin Dress, Little Catskin (Paperback)

Chapters: The Vain Little Mouse, the Golden Bracelet, the Princess That Wore a Rabbit-Skin Dress, Little Catskin, the Boy and the Wolves. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Vain Little Mouse (Spanish: ) is a folktale about a little mouse and her many suitors. There are many different versions of this tale, but the structure is common. In the first part of the tale, a little mouse is cleaning her house and finds a coin unexpectedly. Then she wonders on what she should spend this newly found money, and mentions a series of items (which vary according to the person telling the tale) that she systematically discards with various reasons. For example: Will I buy a needle? No, because I could prick my finger. Will I buy a bunch of sweets? No, because my teeth will become rotten, and so on. She finally decides on a ribbon to put in her tail to look more attractive. In the second part of the tale, a rosary of animal suitors come to ask the little mouse to marry them, attracted by her enhanced beauty. To see if each suitor is compatible with her, she asks them what they will do at night. The suitor then replies with his characteristic sound: the dog barks, the horse neighs, the donkey brays, etc. She discards every one of them saying that they would frighten her. Finally comes another mouse and he replies: "I'll sleep and be silent," to which the she-mouse agrees and they marry and live happily ever after. There are many variants of this tale. In some versions of the tale the she-mouse is seduced by the answer of the cat, who sweetly meows when asked what he'll do at night. In this version the she-mouse marries the cat and she is usually eaten by the cat at the wedding night, though not always. Other variants have a third part in which the he-mouse fa...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=568286