The Fox and the Stork and The Man, His Son and the Ass

Title

en_US The Fox and the Stork and The Man, His Son and the Ass

en_US BAW 2

Description

en_US Val Biro?

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Biro, Val

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:13Z

en_US 2004-03

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:13Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

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, and he explains important elements of the story well. Thus, at the fox's dinner, the absence of spoons--which the stork would be too polite to ask for--is mentioned. I do not think that I have seen spoons mentioned in this story before. Similarly, the stork knows that the fox is too polite to pick up his jug and tip the meat into his mouth. The faces which Biro gives to the stork on the title-page and to the fox on the story's last page are excellent. The workmen in MSA suggest that a donkey is good for carrying two people, and thus the double load is here not an original idea of the man. After each encounter, the man (not identified as a miller here) thinks that he should please the person who has given him advice. Both father and son wear turban-like headgear. At the end, they fall into the water with the donkey.

Identifier

en_US 184135080X

en_US 4943 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80541

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Award Publications Limited

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.B57 Fx 2001 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole