Squids will be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables

Title

en_US Squids will be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables

en_US Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Jon Scieszka

Creator

en_US Leach, Molly See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Smith, Lane

Date

2016-01-25T16:19:22Z

en_US 1998-11

en_US 1998

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:19:22Z

Date Issued

en_US 1998

Abstract

en_US A thoroughly delightful book squarely in the Aesopic tradition and great for young people. This is a book I would think of giving to Sonja. Eighteen fables, more or less, illustrated in the tradition I love from their earlier The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. Elephant comes back three times with mosquito, flea, and gnat respectively. The title fable may be one of the best. gee … I wonder is very close to Aesop in its bearing. straw & matches is downright Thurberesque in moving the story around to fit the proverbial moral. My favorite: little walrus. hand, foot, & tongue starts out looking very close to Aesop, but then…. The very serious historical afterword points out that Aesop was thrown off a cliff for his fables; moral: If you are planning to write fables, don't forget to change the people into animals and avoid places with high cliffs.

Identifier

en_US 067088135X

en_US 2837 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78362

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Viking

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.S37 Sq 1998 See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole