Story-Hour Plays

Title

en_US Story-Hour Plays

en_US Dramatic Readers Series: Book Three

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Frances Sankstone Mintz

Creator

en_US Mintz, Frances Sankstone See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Wilson, Clara Powers

Date

2016-01-25T15:53:20Z

en_US 1992-05

en_US 1915

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:53:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 1915

Abstract

en_US Purchased in 1941 by the Bellevue, NE, school system. A surprising little book. All of its pieces are plays; most are fables. Yet none are from Aesop or LaFontaine; might Books One and Two have presented those fables? Ten sources are listed, but the attributions are questionable. The Mouse Changed into a Woman and Minerva are said to come from Bidpai! The book has a very nice three-color cover of a fox reading. The orange-and-brown illustrations in the text are enjoyable, especially for the way in which they dress up animals. Many of the fables seem too simple to engage even children. How the Hare's Friends Deserted Her (53) is good, using Gay verbatim at the beginning and end. Lessing's Aesop and the Donkey is on 88. New to me and good: Who Killed Otter's Babies? (78-84) and The Fox and the Tortoise (109). The latter indulges in some risky thinking for a school-reader early in this century when the fox answers the turtle boasting of his safe armor: True indeed; but to escape misfortune is to want experience. Those that live in ease, live in ignorance. I do not envy you your life. In The Mouse Changed into a Woman (105) Jupiter, not Aphrodite, makes the change. How the Tiger Was Caught (129) replays the earlier trick-- Show me how it was done --from Ungrateful Adder (99). The book evidences extensive repair work and pencilling.

Identifier

en_US 1413 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76987

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Rand McNally & Company,

en_US Chicago, IL

Subject

en_US PN3171 .M5 1915 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