The Rabbit and the Turtle: Aesop's Fables Retold and Illustrated by Eric Carle

Title

en_US The Rabbit and the Turtle: Aesop's Fables Retold and Illustrated by Eric Carle

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Eric Carle

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Carle, Eric

Date

2016-01-25T19:55:15Z

en_US 2008-08

en_US 2008

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:55:15Z

Date Issued

en_US 2008

Abstract

en_US The information facing the title-page indicates that the stories here come from Eric Carle's Treasury of Classic Stories for Children, published in 1988. Some of them appeared, it says, in Twelve Tales from Aesop, published in 1980. In any case, the order of elements is different here. As I mentioned when I first encountered Carle's work, both art and narrative are lively and playful. FC (26) and GA (28) offer excellent illustrations from this fine piece of work. The crow holds a sausage in his beak, a plate with another sausage in one foot, and a knife and fork in his hands, while a wine-bottle and glass sit perched in the tree! Fox and child sit waiting patiently on a bench below. (That same fox and child appear on the title-page.) This version of GA transforms the traditional ending: one last ant who appreciates his music opens her home to the grasshopper. Enjoy the development of the narrative of OF (22) as family members shout that they love the frog as he is! I like this book a great deal, and I am glad to see it newly released. I have used many of Carle's illustrations in slide-lectures. Reinforced binding for library use.

Identifier

en_US 9780545005418 (lib. bdg.)

en_US 6576 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81897

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Orchard Books: Scholastic

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.C22 Rab 2008 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole