The Boy and the Lion

Title

en_US The Boy and the Lion

en_US Fables from Aesop #6

en_US BG 6

Description

en_US Fifth impression

en_US Told and illustrated by Val Biro

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Told and illustrated by Val Biro

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:17Z

en_US 2005-08

en_US 1986

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:17Z

Date Issued

en_US 1983

Abstract

en_US This is a well-worn but sympathetic and engaging sixteen-page pamphlet with stiff covers. I love Biro's illustrations. The boy in this booklet is indeed a boy, vaguely African with a cap and a tattered long shirt that serves as his only clothing. The king for whom he works is cruel, and so the boy runs away. Biro gives great expressions to the pained lion as he approaches the boy with his paw bleeding. This lion speaks, and so he can simply tell the boy his problem. The cruel king personally catches the lion and holds him in a net. He also catches the boy and wants to punish him by throwing him to the lion. Whereas the ruler usually sees the two encounter in an amphitheater of some sort, here he sees them encounter in the lion's jail den, into which he throws the boy. When the two smile at each other and the boy puts his arm around the lion, the amazed king lets both go free. Is this act in character? Now I have found nine of the twelve booklets in this series.

Identifier

en_US 6048 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81460

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Ginn and Company

en_US Aylesbury Bucks, England

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.B57 Boy 1983 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Pamphlet