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“Chukfi is a trickster worthy of the name| and this fresh| funny tale makes an excellent addition to the genre.” (starred reivew| “Kirkus Reviews”)
Named to “Kirkus Reviews'” Best Books of 2014
Silly kids| tricks are for rabbits! Chukfi Rabbit| that is.
The laziest–and hungriest–trickster rabbit there is!
Deep in Choctaw Country| Chukfi Rabbit is always figuring out some way to avoid work at all costs.
When Bear| Turtle| Fox| and Beaver agree on an everybody-work-together day to build Ms.
Possum a new house| Chukfi Rabbit says he’s too busy to help.
Until he hears there will be a feast to eat after the work is done: cornbread biscuits| grape dumplings| tanchi labona (a delicious Choctaw corn stew)| and best of all| fresh| homemade butter! So while everyone else helps build the house| Chukfi helps himself to all that yummy butter! The furry fiend! But this greedy trickster will soon learn that being this lazy is hard work! A classic trickster tale in the Choctaw tradition.
Greg Rodgers is a storyteller and writer.
He is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and tells stories in schools| libraries| festivals| and tribal events throughout the country.
He is currently completing a PhD at the University of Illinois| Urbana.
Leslie Stall Widener lives in north Texas in a one-hundred-year old farmhouse with her husband| also an illustrator.
When she was a child| she explored every inch of her grandparents’ Oklahoma farm| an allotment her grandmother received for her Choctaw ancestry.
Leslie’s latest book| a collaboration with her sister| is an illustrated his of fashion.
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