Item
Usborne Illustrated Fables from Around the World
- Title
- en_US Usborne Illustrated Fables from Around the World
- Description
- No Author
- Creator
- en_US No Author See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Klauss, Anja
- Date
- 2020-01-23T17:39:34Z
- 2019-11
- en_US 2016
- Date Available
- 2020-01-23T17:39:34Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2016
- Abstract
- en_US This is a physically heavy, padded-cover, book of 256 pages. The cover illustration features a lavish red dragon and a colorful frog perched on a colorful rock. The eighteen stories listed on the beginning T of C, we are told in the prefatory comment, "explain how things came to be." The comment also says that these stories are "known as myths or fables." The stories strike me as a collection of, yes, myths and also pourquoi stories. I would be hard pressed to call any of them a fable. There are many gods and spirits operating in these stories! I do notice a lovely sequence in "The Missing Goddess" (110-127) where LM is nicely integrated into a larger overall story. There is even an excellent Illustration of the mouse sitting on the netted lion's nose (121). One of the book's loveliest features is its vivid use of color in the illustrations. I only wish it were more about fables!
- Identifier
- en_US 12005 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Usborne Publishing
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.U826 2016 See all items with this value
- Various See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection