Pebbles from a Broken Jar: Fables and Hero Stories from Old China

Title

en_US Pebbles from a Broken Jar: Fables and Hero Stories from Old China

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Frances Alexander

Creator

en_US Alexander, Frances See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US School children's scissor-cuts

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:46Z

en_US 2011-10

en_US 1963

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 1963

Abstract

en_US Here is a surprise. I have a copy of this book published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1967. That copy acknowledges a 1963 copyright by Frances Alexander. This book was thus apparently privately published by Alexander and then taken over four years later by Bobbs-Merrill. As I mentioned then, this book represents an unusual find with eighteen stories. One of them is the Aesopic TB: Chi and Yi (22-23). Many are etiologies, especially of animal sounds. Several involve clever solutions (11, 14, 16, 18, and 28). The best of the stories are found on 9, 18, 19, and 23. The excellent scissor-cuts were done by grade school children in Cheefu, China, about 1920. The best of them are on 9 (mosquitoes), 13 (tiger), 18 (ice), and 22 (bear).

Identifier

en_US 7505 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82772

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Copyright Frances Alexander

en_US Austin, TX

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.A36 Pe 1963 See all items with this value

en_US Chinese See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole