Brer Rabbit

Read the most by: boys and girls

The Great Tug-o-war "John Agard's feel for rhythm and poetry is very much evident in his wonderful version of this familiar fable, which shows that brains can outwit brawn. Brainy, bouncy, bob-bottomed Brer Rabbit tricks those two boastful strong guys, Hippo and Rhino, into staging a tug-o-war contest against each other. Of course, the match ends in a dead heat, but the contestants take it all in good humour when they discover how they've been fooled. After all, as Brer Rabbit tells them, 'friendship is longer than rope'."