Slop!: A Welsh Folktale by Margaret Read MacDonald
	List Price:   $15.95 Unit Price:   $12.76 You Save:   $3.19 (20%) ISBN-10:   1555913520 ISBN-13:   9781555913526 Publisher:   Fulcrum Publishing Category:   Agriculture Pub. Date:   September 1997 Pages:   24 Format:   Bath Book Ages:   4 to 12 Grades:   3 to 6
Subjects
FOLKLORE_WALES CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
An old man and old woman throw their dinner leftovers unknowingly onto the tiny house of a little man and his wife. In this Welsh folktale, fairies become annoyed when their neighbor continually empties his slop bucket on top of their cottage. Every night an old couple dump their dinner slops into a bucket, then the old man pours the slops over the garden wall - right on another house! When they realise what he has done, the couple use their ingenuity to solve the problem in this Welsh folktale. A couple dumps their dinner slops over the garden wall. Discover the near disaster that follows. What's a wee woman and wee man to do when vegetable peelings and dishwater pour down their wee chimney? Every evening, an old man and woman finish their dinner and throw their slops over the garden fence, not knowing that the wee couple lives below. When the wee man shows them the effect of their slops on his house, they devise an ecological solution to the problem. Full color.