Item
Two-Minute Animal Stories
- Title
- en_US Two-Minute Animal Stories
- en_US Lion Children's Book
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US First edition
- en_US Retold by Elena Pasquali
- Creator
- en_US Pasquali, Elena See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Smee, Nicola
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:36:28Z
- en_US 2013-07
- en_US 2009
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:36:28Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2009
- Abstract
- en_US There are ten short animal tales told here. Three are identified as from Aesop: Lion and Tiger (6), TH (34), and LM (38). The first is new to me. Lion and Tiger grow up together under the tutelage of a wise man. They argue about whether the moon's changes presage changes in weather. The wise man intervenes saying The moon changes as it will. The weather changes as it will. One thing should never change: friendship (9). Hug indicates that his words have the desired impact. In The Crocodile Feast from India (14), deer tricks the greedy crocodiles into lining up in the narrows, so that she can count them by jumping across their backs to the fruit she wants. Greedy Monkey from Pakistan (26) combines elements of The Boy and the Filberts and FG. The Two Frogs from Japan (30) is the famous tale of mistaking one's own familiar place -- Kyoto and Osaka, respectively -- for the new and different place one had intended to reach. Kyoto is just like Osaka. Each goes home none the wiser (33). LM has what seems a typo: ''You were tickling me,' he said a growling voice (39). Hare is Scared from India (42) is the story of a thud seeming to the hare to signal the end of the world. Lion halts the stampede and urges the animals to stop and think the next time. Other stories are aetiological pourquoi stories explaining such things as zebras' stripes and porcupines' quills. Lively, colorful water-color illustrations are well balanced with text. Perhaps the best is the first: the wise old man dangles a catnip mouse over the lion and tiger cubs (6).
- Identifier
- en_US 9780745960807 (cased)
- en_US 9063 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Lion Children's
- en_US Oxford, UK
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.1.P2313 Two 2009 See all items with this value
- en_US Collection 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