The Bear and the Travellers and The Ducks and the Tortoise

Title

en_US The Bear and the Travellers and The Ducks and the Tortoise

en_US BAW 5

Description

en_US Val Biro?

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Biro, Val

Date

2016-01-25T19:13:35Z

en_US 2003-12

en_US 2002

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:13:35Z

Date Issued

en_US 2002

Abstract

en_US This volume seems to belong to the set from which I already have two other volumes, but the three booklets are printed by different companies. See The Ass in the Pond by Ginn in 1984/85 and The Eagle and the Man by the Wright Group in 1986. Here two volumes are grouped together in a large 8½ x 9½ pamphlet. 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. TB has an older and a younger friend. The latter forsakes the former. The bear surprises them at very close range and chases them. Does not this element hurt the story when the chasing bear comes upon one of the two men suddenly dead? The old man is offering his staff as a weapon for the young man to use when the latter climbs up into the tree. Biro's illustrations have fun with the story. The inciting element in TT is not drought or any other danger but the tortoise's desire to fly. Whereas the tortoise in many versions of this story opens his mouth to say something harsh in response to the crowd, the tortoise here opines that the people below must think that he is very clever. Apparently the thump of his fall does no permanent damage to the tortoise.

Identifier

en_US 1841351091

en_US 4701 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80331

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Award Publications Limited

en_US London

Subject

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

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Pamphlet