The King's Fountain
Author:
Lloyd Alexander
Illustrator:
Ezra Jack Keats
Publication:
1971 by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Genre:
Fiction, Picture Books
Pages:
44
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A king once decided to build a great fountain that would cut off the water to the city below his palace. A poor man, hearing of this, decided he must find someone who could persuade the king not to put up this fountain that would cause his people to die of thirst.
But the wisest scholar could not speak clearly and winningly; the smooth-tongued merchants were afraid of the king's anger; and the bravest man was too foolhardy to get past the king's guards. And so, the poor man had to go himself.
Lloyd Alexander has written a story of a very human dilemma that Ezra Keats has illustrated with dramatic brilliance.
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