Fables from Africa

Title

en_US Fables from Africa

en_US Tree Tops

Description

en_US Apparent fifth printing

en_US Timothy Knapman

Creator

en_US Knapman, Timothy See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Selby, Linda

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:17Z

en_US 2012-04

en_US 2010

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:17Z

Date Issued

en_US 2010

Abstract

en_US This is a nice reader with five African fables. I do not know any of these fables, at least in this form. Their storylines follow standard fable tropes. The Tortoise and the Baboon is like FS. After the baboon mocks the tortoise by inviting him to enjoy food up a tree, tortoise invites baboon to wonderful food but insists that he have clean paws. Baboon must come over ashen territory, and so repeated attempts do not produce clean paws. The Upside-down Lion works off of the pattern of getting the dangerous animal back to the trap he fell into the first time. This time lion learns not to threaten friendly people, and so he acts better to his liberating mouse than he had to his liberating baboons. The Hungry Hyena sees a hyena lured into a corral by a wily jackal. After they eat many lambs, the jackal goes against his own rule not to attack goats. When the goats rouse the dogs and shepherds, the jackal departs through a hole. The hyena can no longer make it through and pays the penalty for all the shepherds' loss. The Bag of Salt has a lizard jump onto and claim a bag of salt which a tortoise is dragging home. In revenge, the tortoise jumps onto and claims the lizard! Stronger than the Lion has to do with tricking a lion into a locked hut, where he learns that hunger is stronger than he is. Try 28 through 31 for two of the best illustrations showing the bloated hyena first loose and then stuck in the corral wall. Good stuff!

Identifier

en_US 9780198469520 (pbk.)

en_US 7715 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82972

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Oxford University Press

en_US Oxford

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.K637 Fab 2010 See all items with this value

en_US Africa See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole