"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. 5-8) - Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. This gratifying story of the disarming of greed provides an amazing look at the doubling process, and a calendar at the end shows how the reward simply grew and grew. Day 21 garners 1,048,576 grains of rice on the last day it takes fold-out flaps to show the herd of elephants necessary to convey the rice to Rani, who feeds the masses and extracts from the raja a promise to be more generous. The raja, though, doesn't grasp the power of doubling. Her request is seemingly modest: a grain of rice on the first day, two grains the next, four grains on the third each day double the rice of the day before, for 30 days. When a young village girl, Rani, returns to the raja some rice that had fallen from baskets laden for his consumption, he offers her a reward.
A few years later the harvest fails, and so does the raja: ``Promise or no promise, a raja must not go hungry,'' he intones. The raja of a rice-growing village orders his subjects to deliver to him the bulk of their harvest he will keep it safe should a famine occur. In artwork inspired by Indian miniatures (though lacking their exquisiteness), Demi (The Stonecutter, 1995, etc.) fashions a folktale with far-reaching effects. Through the surprising power of doubling, one grain of rice grows into more than one billion grains of rice - and Rani teaches the raja a lesson about what it truly means to be wise and fair.Demi's exquisitely detailed art, inspired by traditional Indian miniature paintings, combine with her simple retelling to convey the heart and wisdom of.
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