Geoffrey Chaucer and Barbara Cooney - Chanticleer and the Fox

Pros: good story, beautiful artwork

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: A wonderful story taken from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and elegantly illustrated by Barbara Cooney about a meeting between an egotistic rooster and a hungry fox.

Review: I have never read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, but I've always meant to. However, luckily for me, som ...

Pros: excellent pictures, good lesson

Cons: humans seem superfluous, Chanticleer's many wives

The Bottom Line: Listening to flattery will get you into trouble...

Review: Several years ago, Don Bluth produced a movie called Rockadoodle, in which the main character is an Elvis-like rooster named Chanticleer. It's kind of a corny cartoon, but I can at least credit it with introducing me to the French word for ...