The Farmer and His Sons and The Ass in the Lion's Skin

Title

en_US The Farmer and His Sons and The Ass in the Lion's Skin

en_US BAW 8

Description

en_US Val Biro?

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Biro, Val

Date

2016-01-25T19:27:34Z

en_US 2003-08

en_US 2002

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:27:34Z

Date Issued

en_US 2002

Abstract

en_US This volume belongs to a set of eight large 8½ x 9½ pamphlets illustrated by Biro, most containing one longer and one shorter story. Each page contains a head-line which repeats above the illustration part of what will be written just below it on the same page. Apparently this method is meant to offer help to the intended audience of first readers, mentioned on the back cover. Biro's style remains engaging. The characters in the first story are Italian or German, to judge by their dress and accessories. The lazy sons lounge around in the shade of a tree. After their father's death and their energetic digging up of the vineyard, they are back to lying around under the old tree…until the harvest surprises them by its quality and abundance! In DLS, the lion-skin falls off the ass as he romps about, and he does not even notice the loss. Biro has a great line near the end of the story: Without his lion's skin he had no lion's courage.

Identifier

en_US 1841351083

en_US 4795 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80417

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Award Publications Limited

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.B57 Fa 2002 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Pamphlet