Item
Favorite Children's Stories from China and Tibet.
- Title
- en_US Favorite Children's Stories from China and Tibet.
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Fifth printing
- en_US Lotta Carswell Hume
- Creator
- en_US Hume, Lotta Carswell See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Koon-chiu, Lo
- Date
- 2016-08-26T13:39:02Z
- en_US 2015-07
- en_US 2000
- Date Available
- 2016-08-26T13:39:02Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1962
- Abstract
- en_US "Twenty-four years ago I found a first paperback printing of this book from 1989. Now I have found a 2000 fifth printing of the original 1962 hardbound edition. The book is printed now in Singapore and the publisher is Tuttle Publishing rather than the Charles E. Tuttle Company. The typesetting of the title-page has changed. As I wrote then, this is a book of good contemporary popular Oriental art. Nineteen stories with over ninety illustrations, including twelve full-page illustrations in color in classic Chinese brush style. All of the colored pictures of tigers are particularly well done. Enjoy the excellent human faces on 51. The first of the stories, "Soo Tan the Tiger and the Little Green Frog" (9), is especially witty. "A Chinese Cinderella" (15) has a surprise epilogue. In the next story, the frog outwits the tiger by saying that he can exist on his own saliva (26). "The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey" (39) is common, but this version has an unusual twist: several monkey-hearts will be necessary. Closest to Aesop: "A Hungry Wolf" (55). Some stories have etiological elements: how, for example, did the deer get such a short stub of a tail (109)? "The Little Hare's Clever Trick" (115) is the common Kalila and Dimna story about fooling the lion, except that here there is no general contract with the lion and the hare himself is not a part of the reflection in the pool."
- Identifier
- en_US 10866 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Tuttle Publishing
- en_US Boston, MA
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.1.H885Fav 2000 See all items with this value
- en_US Chinese See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books