Title: Little Rooster's Diamond Button
Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
Artist: Will Terry
Genre: Animals / Manners / Folktale / Hungary / Magic
Year Published: 2007
Year Read: 2015
Source: Library
Content Rating: Ages 5+ (Nothing Objectionable)
Buy or Add on: Amazon // Goodreads
Now, I have read many unusual and creative folktales over the years, but I have never read a folktale quite like this one! “Little Rooster’s Diamond Button” is a Hungarian folktale retold by Margaret Read MacDonald along with illustrations by Will Terry that is so bizarre yet hilarious that any child would enjoy reading this book!
The story starts off with Little Rooster finding a beautiful
diamond button in the ground and he decided to give the button to his
mistress. Unfortunately, the king comes
along and he ends up stealing the diamond button from Little Rooster to put
into his treasure chamber. But when
Little Rooster went after the king and demanded that the king should give him
back his diamond button, the king got extremely angry and he ordered Little
Rooster to be thrown down the well!
However, it turns out that Little Rooster has a magic stomach that could
consume anything on command and Little Rooster ended up drinking up all the
water in the well! This ended up making
the king even angrier and he then ordered Little Rooster to be thrown into the
fire!
Will Little Rooster’s magic stomach get him out of this situation and
will he get his diamond button back?
Read this book to find out!
Margaret Read
MacDonald has done it again in retelling an ancient folktale and making the
story innovating for the readers! I
loved the way that Margaret Read
MacDonald retold this story as I found the story to be pretty hilarious and
creative and I was intrigued with Little Rooster’s predicament in trying to get
his diamond button back from the king. I loved the fact that this story teaches
children about the consequences of being too greedy and I loved how brave and
determined Little Rooster was in trying to confront the King and get his prized
diamond ring back. I think it took a lot
of courage from Little Rooster to confront the King about his actions and it
shows children that if a great wrong has been done to you, you should try to
stand up for yourself to make things right again. But probably the best part of this story was
the fact that Little Rooster has a magic stomach that is able to consume
anything on command! I found that to be pretty interesting for this story because
even though I have read some folktales where characters are able to consume
large amounts of food (The Fool of the
World and the Flying Ship), I am still amazed that there is a story where a
character has a magical stomach and is able to use that stomach to get
themselves out of various predicaments! Will Terry’s illustrations are
hilarious and brightly colored and they greatly complement the energetic mood
of this story! I also loved the images of the king having big purple baggy
pants as it makes him look quite silly and it shows just how silly and arrogant
he really is.
Overall, “Little
Rooster’s Diamond Button” is a fantastic read for children who want to read
folktales from Hungary and who want a good book that would make them laugh! I would recommend this book to children ages
five and up since there is nothing inappropriate in this book.
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