Item
The Race
- Title
- en_US The Race
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Apparent second printing
- en_US By Caroline Repchuk
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Jay, Alison
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:13:27Z
- en_US 2003-12
- en_US 2002
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:13:27Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2002
- Abstract
- en_US This is a large-format (9¾ x 11¼) landscape-formatted development of TH. A map early in the book shows a race starting from London and reaching to New York. The tortoise announces his usual wisdom Slow and steady is the way/to get somewhere without delay. Hare takes off in a car that leaves a cloud of dust. Tortoise cleverly boards an ocean liner. Hare runs into trouble; picture-postcards show him on ski-lift gondolas and Venetian gondolas. He is even thrown off by a donkey in Greece. Hot air balloons and kayaks continue the theme. After a boat ride of his own, Hare takes a plane from Hong Kong. After a stop in Australia, he gets into a fast plane--and then jumps out of it near the Statue of Liberty. If you look closely in the Statue's crown, Tortoise is there waving to Hare. In the end, the old-time moral is confirmed. The book's paintings are given a deliberate retro feel by showing cracked paint. It is all quite a bother about a simple point, but I suppose that observation only confirms this story's moral.
- Identifier
- en_US 811835006
- en_US 4675 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Chronicle Books
- en_US San Francisco, CA
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.R355 Rac 2002 See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books