The Hare and the Tortoise and Other Fables: Aesop's fables retold by Alice Mills

Title

en_US The Hare and the Tortoise and Other Fables: Aesop's fables retold by Alice Mills

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Alice Mills

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Varetsa, Lialia

Date

2016-01-25T19:59:40Z

en_US 2008-07

en_US 1999

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:59:40Z

Date Issued

en_US 1999

Abstract

en_US I had found this book earlier in its Australian version, published in 2000 by Global Book Publishing. Now I have found the 1999 USA version, published by Mynah, an imprint of Random House Australia. The ISBN has changed from 1740480961 to 0091838339. The publisher's icon at the base of the spine has changed accordingly. The book not only comes to me through two different publishers; it was printed by two different printers, both in Hong Kong. There is a dust jacket on this copy, and there was none on that book. More staff are listed facing the title-page. I will repeat some of my comments from that edition. This book turns out to be far more extensive than I had thought. It has an unusual landscape format of 9 x 6. Each page has a square illustration of about 3½ on a side, with the text next to it. Many of the illustrations are seriously indebted to Walter Crane. Several of the fables and their illustrations are unusual. The Warhorse and the Miller concludes with the miller saying You should have thought more carefully before you chose to give up the army for the mill (27). The Leopard and the Fox has the fox finishing with this statement: An unspotted mind and heart are better than any spotted skin (44). The artist may not have understood on 52 how a clever cat might suspend itself by its hind legs from a peg as though she were dead. On 66, the fox falls into a river, not a well, and gets the goat to help him out. The Kingdom of the Lion is played out without irony, as the lion proclaims a universal peace and the little animals say that this is the day that they have been waiting for (77). The Tortoise and the Birds may conflate two fables (93) or perhaps two motifs from different fables. The tortoise offers a large reward for flying, and the eagle is not sure how she can crack his shell. In MM, the milkmaid does not shake her head; she trips on a stone (100). There is a T of C at the beginning and both an AI and advertisements at the back.

Identifier

en_US 9780091838331

en_US 6889 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82194

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Published in USA by Mynah

en_US Milsons Point, Australia

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.M58 Ha 1999 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole