Item
A Word to the Wise and Other Proverbs
- Title
- en_US A Word to the Wise and Other Proverbs
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Selected by Johanna Hurwitz
- Creator
- en_US Hurwitz, Johanna See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Rayevsky, Robert
- Date
- 2016-04-20T15:51:11Z
- en_US 2015-08
- en_US 1996
- Date Available
- 2016-04-20T15:51:11Z
- Date Issued
- 1996
- Abstract
- Who is to say how many of these proverbs relate to a fable? The clearest case for me is well illustrated in the breathtaking panorama of the endpapers, as a milkmaid beside a spilled pail has her arms straight up in the air. The legend around the picture includes both "Don't count your chickens before they hatch" and "Don't cry over spilt milk." Curiously enough, the illustration inside the book for these two proverbs together has a cook in a kitchen standing over a dropped birthday cake left over from the facing page. Rayevsky is again masterful in finding and exploring the funny parts of a scene. The afterword offers a well-deserved comment that different proverbs regularly contradict each other. It offers five such pairs of contradictions. Ben Franklin is on the cover and in the preface.
- Identifier
- en_US 10607 (Access ID)
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- Morrow Junior Books
- en_US NY
- Subject
- en_US PN6405.W57 1994 See all items with this value
- Collection See all items with this value
- Type
- Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books