Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US The Lion Classic

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Retold by Margaret McAllister

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Hall, Amanda

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:29Z

en_US 2012-04

en_US 2011

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 2011

Abstract

en_US I agree with the back cover of both the book and the dust-jacket: A perceptive retelling of 28 classic fables, full of wit and wisdom, and a book to treasure for a lifetime. This is a worthy recent entry into the long fable tradition. The texts of the fables seem lively and engaging. The illustrations are done, one or two to each story, in a primitive style that I find engaging. Do not miss, for example, the matching pictures of father and daughters (35 and 36). Again, two images portray four excellent faces for FS (54-55). And again in SW, there are two strong contrasting images (82-83). Do not miss finally the dramatic second image in BW (119). Each story's title is marked with a standard image: Are those olives or grapes? And each fable's moral is framed in a standard box with an accompanying animal. As is utterly appropriate for this book's approach to Aesop, the author adds a good pair of pieces at the end on Aesop and on herself.

Identifier

en_US 9780745962009 (hbk.)

en_US 7753 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83010

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Lion Children's: Lion Hudson

en_US Oxford

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.M356 Li 2011 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole