Author(s): Heather Forest,Susan Greenstein
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 32
Publisher: August House Publishers
Language: English
Date Published: 2005-12-19
Dimensions: 221 x 281.9 x 5.1mm
Publication City/Country: Little Rock, United States
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Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified

With a tiny, cluttered house, giggling children, and a snoring wife, the poor man in this story can't get a good night's sleep. "If only," he thinks, "I had a big quiet house!"

He throws off his covers and goes to visit the wise old woman at the edge of the village. Surely she can help him solve his problem. And she does, but not without giving him some very nonsensical advice. "Bring a chicken into your house, " she suggests. And when that doesn't work, she has him add a goat, a horse, a cow, and a sheep.

The ending of the story proves, as so many ancient folktales do, that quite often, nonsense makes the best sense of all.