Timeless Tales: Fables

Title

en_US Timeless Tales: Fables

Description

en_US Tana Reiff

Creator

en_US Reiff, Tana See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Chauvin, Catherine

Date

2016-01-25T16:19:25Z

en_US 1998-04

en_US 1991

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:19:25Z

Date Issued

en_US 1991

Abstract

en_US This is an elementary booklet containing sixteen fables, with strong woodcuts and a proverbial moral under the woodcut. Other than a short introduction, there is nothing here but these fables and their illustrations. The book is at its best when it formulates the morals of fables. Moral of CP: When you have a problem, use your head (11). For FG: Finding fault with what you can't have is only pretending that you never wanted it (18). The Fox and the Goat gets as its moral Look before you leap (20). The cover illustration (FS) is perhaps the strongest (also on 22). The monkey jumps onto a fish's back, not a dolphin's (26); the monkey from the big city simply lies that he knows the king, and there is no wordplay about whom he knows. In The Three Bulls and the Lion the bulls fight over grass on their own, and, angered, retreat to three different corners of the field. At the end of BW, the boy was never seen again (33). BC has an apt moral: Talking is one thing; doing is something else (41).

Identifier

en_US 0883362708 (pbk.)

en_US 2854 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78376

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US New Readers Press

en_US Syracuse, NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.R3 Fab 1991 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole