The Bowers Movie Book: Book 2: Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US The Bowers Movie Book: Book 2: Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Retold by Tanya and Peter Thomas

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:27:56Z

en_US 2004-05

en_US 1923

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:27:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 1923

Abstract

en_US Flip the Pages--The Pictures Live, the cover proclaims. I swear I had found a copy of this book before, but I cannot find it now. The inside back cover proclaims four books in the series; Aesop's Fables is the second of the four, the others being Mother Goose, The Circus, and Once Upon a Time. The concept is simple. Each of the eight pages is really a double page, folded once. One of its quadrants has fables illustrated with small black and white illustrations. One of its quadrants is blank. The other two quadrants have similar colored illustrations. Because of the fold and the placement of the two colored quadrants, one can make the pictures move by raising and lowering the top colored page with a rolling motion. The characters seem to move between their two positions. The colored illustrations are exquisite! The colored fables are FG, The Boy and the Filberts, The Bald Man and the Fly, The Hare and the Hound, The Fisherman, The Blackamoor, GA (alas, one picture is not aligned well), and The Cocks and the Eagle (less good than others because of a crease). The texts for these special fables are done in rhyming verse. The fable used for demonstrating the flip technique and for representing this second, fable, volume is The Wolf and the Goat, but that fable does not appear in the good copy here! It does appear, along with a second copy of FG, in the second copy from Paul Lazarek. For that reason, I will keep both in the collection. There happens to be an unusually good moral to The Boy Bathing: Give Assistance, not Advice, in a Crisis. Was it Mr. Kane himself who wrote at the top of the first page Not in Carlson 1994? This book was surely not in my 1994 catalogue! And I am delighted that it is in my catalogue now. What a lovely little treasure!

Identifier

en_US 4867 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80486

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Harcourt, Brace and Company; The W.F. Powers Company

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 1923 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole