Mrs.McCool And The Giant Cuhullin - An Irish Tale
TITLE: Mrs.McCool and the Giant Cuhullin AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR: Jessica Souhami PUBLISHER: Henry Holt and Company AGES: Good for "Read Aloud" and "Read it Yourself". The joy of folktales is something that we recently discovered at our home. Stepping aside from classics and contemporary humor , we seem to embrace folktales, quite effortlessly. The book that I have with me is an Irish folklore, bearing a tale very similar to the ones that were orally passed on to me while I was growing up. The central characters in this tale are legendary giants Cuhullin and Finn McCool. Mrs. Oona McCool is the one with the brains and quite intuitively, also the one to save her husband oftentimes from Cuhullin. Now, Cuhullin has a magic finger that makes him strong and Finn has a magic thumb that bestows upon him, the power to foresee things. Finn uses his magic thumb and announces (in jitters of course) the impending arrival of Cuhullin. Mrs.McCool to the rescue! A simple story y...