Rum Pum Pum: A Folk Tale from India

by Maggie Duff

Book Overview

Aided by others who have suffered at the hands of the king, a blackbird seeks revenge on the monarch who has stolen his wife. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 002732950X
• ISBN13: 9780027329506
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Rum Pum Pum

My mother read this story to me when I was little. I adored the story becuase of the repetitive rhyme, and the cunning of the bird. While some might say that the story seems a bit violent, I think that the way the bird travels across the land to rescue his beloved from the selfish king demonstrates a fantastic lesson in love and devotion. The illustrations were wonderful too. For example, when the various things travelling with the bird crawled into his ear in order to make the journey, (the stick, the ants, the river, the cats) the pictures showed them up in the corner of the page, and it delighted my imagination to think that so many things could fit into the ear of such a small bird.