Favorite Children's Stories from China and Tibet.

Title

en_US Favorite Children's Stories from China and Tibet.

Description

en_US First paperback edition

en_US Lotta Carswell Hume

Creator

en_US Hume, Lotta Carswell See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Koon-Chiu, Lo

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:07Z

en_US 1992-12

en_US 1989

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:07Z

Date Issued

en_US 1962

Abstract

en_US 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 1677 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77246

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Charles E. Tuttle Company

en_US Rutland, VT

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.H885 Fav 1989 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