The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Title

en_US The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

en_US Folk Tale Classics

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First printing thus

en_US After Dodsley

Creator

en_US Galdone, Paul See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Galdone, Paul

Date

2016-01-25T20:20:43Z

en_US 2012-10

en_US 2012

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:20:43Z

Date Issued

en_US 2012

Abstract

en_US This new edition reproduces the original 1971 version by McGraw-Hill. The texts and illustrations are the same, but the format is different. The long horizontal illustrations now cover the pages from left to right, but there is considerable open space left over and under them, so that a book that was 10 wide and 7¼ high has now become about 8¼ square. As I wrote there, Galdone's work is lively. The text is after Dodsley, who presents this story as I, 30, The Court and Country-Mouse. This version still changes Dodsley's female country mouse into a male, adds the court mouse's remonstration over country life and food, and adds finally the notion of the country mouse's considering overnight whether he will go to the city. Wetting whiskers in champagne is true to Dodsley. Galdone gives the country mouse a great smock. This edition continues the nice contrast between city and country in things like symbol and typeface. The lovely back-cover illustration of the two moving through the countryside is lost to an advertisement here. Finding this book in a favorite Georgetown toy store was a pleasant surprise.

Identifier

en_US 9780547668543 (hardcover)

en_US 8689 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83903

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.G3 To 2012 See all items with this value

en_US Book containing one fable See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole