Item
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)
- 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books