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In a retrospective essay about the Caldecott Medal-winning books from 1956 to 1965, Norma R. Fryatt wrote, "The dramatic possibilities in the tale are exploited gently but firmly, even turning the limitations of color printing into advantages... Chanticleer and the Fox is retold with clarity, freshness and dedication to the task." [7]
Chanticleer and the Fox is a fable that dates from the Middle Ages. Though it can be compared to Aesop's fable of The Fox and the Crow, it is of more recent origin.The story became well known in Europe because of its connection with several popular literary works and was eventually recorded in collections of Aesop's Fables from the time of Heinrich Steinhowel and William Caxton onwards.
The Nun's Priest, from the Ellesmere Chaucer (15th century) Chanticleer and the Fox in a mediaeval manuscript miniature "The Nun's Priest's Tale" (Middle English: The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok and Hen, Chauntecleer and Pertelote [1]) is one of The Canterbury Tales by the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Book of the Dun Cow (1978) is a fantasy novel by Walter Wangerin Jr. It is loosely based upon the beast fable of Chanticleer and the Fox adapted from the story of " The Nun's Priest's Tale " from Geoffrey Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales .
A follow-up title in the series, Lethal Voyage, set aboard a cruise to Bermuda, [2] [3] was named 2021's Best Mystery/Thriller by the Kindle Book Review and was a finalist for Chanticleer Book Review's CLUE Award InD’Tale Magazine's RONE award. [3]
The central character of the novel is Bernard Chanticleer, a shoe salesman at a London department store at which his father is a manager. The Chanticleers live in a suburb, and "are type-cast as ridiculous bourgeois". [4] At the store he meets a girl, Amy, who is rejected by his mother as "that terrible blatant girl with such common legs too". [3]
Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 independent [2] live-action/animated musical comedy film produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios Ireland Limited and Goldcrest Films. [3] Loosely based on Edmond Rostand's 1910 comedy play Chantecler, [4] Rock-a-Doodle was directed by Don Bluth and written by David N. Weiss.