My Tale is Twisted! Or The Storal to this Mory, With a Glowing Introduction by the Author Himself

Title

en_US My Tale is Twisted! Or The Storal to this Mory, With a Glowing Introduction by the Author Himself

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Colonel Stoopnagle

Creator

en_US Taylor, F. Chase See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Pearson, Charles

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:35Z

en_US 2004-12

en_US 1946

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:35Z

Date Issued

en_US 1946

Abstract

en_US I have had such fun reading this book! I am going to copy its fables and try some of them first with my community and then in my next fable lecture. I had sought this book for years since my sister Meg sent me an excerpt that she had used with a class of hers. The book was virtually impossible to find. The alibris price suggests that its seller also knows that it is rare. Reading these stories is fun. Stoopnagle himself warns in his introduction that it is not to be read at a single setting. I can manage about one or two stories, and my mind is whirring. The clever transformations are not the result of simple by-the-book mechanisms. Phrase after phrase makes a listener or reader stop to think--or thop to stink, as Stoopnagle would say. Among the best treasures is a second moral thrown in after GGE: Let deeping logs sly (8). Another fine moral finishes off The Bat and the Curds, namely Clancy foes do not a Mockter dake, nor iron cars a baige (36). Twenty-six fables are followed by eighteen Tairy Fales. Pearson's illustrations--for about every third story--are what one would expect from a good journalistic work: they are humorous cartoons, exploiting some of the fun of the situation in easily received manner. Stoopnagle's acknowledgements include the Saturday Evening Post, Aesop, and his ancestors.

Identifier

en_US 6108 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81515

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US M.S. Mill Co.

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PS3539.A8917 M9 1946 See all items with this value

en_US Stoopnagle/Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole