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Brer Rabbit

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Brer Rabbit
clever trickster. [Children’s Lit.: Uncle Remus]


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Authors and illustrators took a new interest in African tales--little known for the most part and often intriguingly different: stories of the beginnings of things, how-and-why tales, trickster yarns in the Brer Rabbit vein.
Race adheres to McKenzie's project like tar to Brer Rabbit.
The Adventures of Mouse Deer: Tales of Indonesia and Malaysia is a retelling of some of South Asia's most popular folklore, about Mouse Deer, a creature who is small but brave and cunning--in many ways similar to the trickster fox of other mythologies, or Brer Rabbit of more contemporary children's literature.
 
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