Three Rolls and One Doughnut: Fables from Russia

Title

en_US Three Rolls and One Doughnut: Fables from Russia

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Original language: rus

en_US First printing

en_US Retold by Mirra Ginsburg

Creator

en_US Ginsburg, Mirra See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Lobel, Anita

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:29Z

en_US 1998-10

en_US 1970

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 1970

Abstract

en_US This delightful book contains twenty-eight stories. Many are familiar in one form or another, whether as fables or other genres of literature. Rabbit Fat (3) is thus the story of the liar whose story shrinks in its absurd proportions the nearer it gets to liar's bridge. The illustration, as is typical for Lobel, is detailed and witty. We watch a barge cross from pier to pier, almost looking like a bridge that has lost some of its parts. Some of the stories are closer to jokes, like How the Peasant Helped His Horse (6). The peasant riding a cart behind the horse picked up one of the bags of grain from the cart and carried it on his shoulder! The title-story is a similar joke. A man ate three rolls and was still hungry; then he ate one doughnut and was no longer hungry (7)! TB appears, with a fine illustration, on 20. Hatchet Gruel (25) is a different form of the traditional Stone Soup. The Peasant and the Bear (27) is a variation of the old You take the tops and I will take the bottoms story. Plans (31) replicates MM, but by having a peasant frighten away the hare the catching of which was going to start his dreamed-of future. A Thousand Thoughts (34) is a distant relative of The Cat and the Fox. The fox in a hole runs and runs with a thousand thoughts. The crane has just one thought. She plays dead, and the hunter throws her out of the hole, planning of course to pick her up in a moment. The four panels on 38 do a good job of echoing The Lion, the Fish, and the Man. The cat teacher keeps one saving trick from her tiger student (40). Two Stubborn Goats (42) is just as we would find it in the fable tradition. The Valiant Lion (45) is a highly developed version of the story of getting the lion to jump into the well to attack his reflection. The Fox and the Thrush (48) is a version of UP. This book is in very good condition.

Identifier

en_US 4042 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79381

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Dial Press

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.G455 Th 1970 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole