This one is definitely one of the strange but clever ones by Andersen. As you can probably tell by the title it's about a Farm-Yard Cock and a Weather-Cock. It tell the story of how each cock acts from the other perspective and from the other animals and vegetables perspective too. I realise how weird it sounds to say vegetables perspective however if he can write about fingers, needles and snowmen in that way then why not vegetables. The Weather-Cock is highly placed but can't even make a sound. Everyone in the story favours the Farm-Yard Cock and (I can't believe I'm about to say this) I feel a bit sorry for the Weather-Cock. I honestly never thought that that would be a sentence I would ever say.
As you will know if you read my blog all Andersen's stories have a moral and this one literally tell you it at the end. Which to be honest is a bit strange for Andersen to do. And what does the moral say?-"Better to crow than to be 'used up' and break off."
Also, as I said in my other posts there are different illustrations at the start of each chapter that I want to share:
Thanks for reading and if you have any books you want me to review then put them in the comments and I'll get round to them as soon as possible.
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