When they have to take on the donkey's load to get to the fair, the tailor, baker, and shoemaker all learn to be tolerant of the other fellow's point of view.
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When a tailor, a baker, and a shoemaker set off for the fair, a series of comic mishaps and clashing personalities makes an unforeseen change in their plans. Just who the four donkeys are, is a question which small children will ask again and again.
The traditional characters in this spirited modern fable come to life in a totally new context—one that illuminates the human foibles common to us all. The illustrations are in the manner and coloration of the finest nineteenth-century illustrators, but their perception and ironical overtones have a particularly twentieth-century appeal.
—from the dust jacket
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