More recipes from the backs of boxes, bottles, cans and jars.

Now when I was growing up these were very controversial stories. I guess these are retold with more of the original backgrounds. This particular version has the Coretta Scott King award, so it must be a good one. I read Brer Rabbit and The Tar Baby. Brer Fox tricks Brer Rabbit by creating a "baby" out of tar. Brer Rabbit tries to communicate with the baby and gets angry when he gets no response. He soon ends up stuck tight to the tar baby. Brer Fox tosses him into a briar patch to further his pain and humiliation but finds out that Brer Rabbit easily frees himself, saying how he was raised in a briar patch. An enjoyable set of fables from the south. ( )