Jungle Doctor Picture Fables Collection

Title

en_US Jungle Doctor Picture Fables Collection

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Paul White

Creator

en_US White, Paul See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Oram, Peter

Date

2016-01-25T20:10:56Z

en_US 2012-03

en_US 1997

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:10:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 1997

Abstract

en_US Just a week ago I had found Monkey in a Lion's Skin in this version illustrated by Peter Oram. I promptly started a search for more of these Jungle Doctor Fables illustrated by Oram. Here is a quick and lucky find, and the price is right! This book of some 179 pages (plus a few pages of advertising) contains eight Jungle Doctor Picture Fables listed on the title-page with strange numbers of two sizes to show the opening page of each. Donkey Wisdom has Punda the donkey unable to decide whether he wants to be black or white and ending up a zebra! Now you know what a zebra is -- a donkey who can't make up his mind (25). A forced Christian admonition follows: decide to ask Jesus to forgive your sin. Famous Monkey Last Words finds Toto, the monkey, violating two of the three rules given by his teacher Twiga, the giraffe. Toto as a result gets kicked by a zebra and almost killed by a snake. Monkey in a Lion's Skin is the only one of these eight stories to work from a traditional fable. It is an adaptation of DLS in which Toto finds out for himself that he is still a monkey even in a lion's skin. In the fourth story, Boohoo the hippopotamus wants to see himself but dislikes what he sees in a mirror. Again the Christian application seems forced to me: The Bible is God's wonderful mirror (91). Jungle Doctor's work represents, I believe, one more fascinating but failed attempt to bring together the worlds of fable and religion.

Identifier

en_US 9781850782674

en_US 7642 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82902

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US OM Publishing: Paternoster

en_US Carlisle

Subject

en_US PZ10.3.W5856 Jung 1997 See all items with this value

en_US Paul White See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole