Item
The Bear and the Travellers and The Ducks and the Tortoise
- Title
- en_US The Bear and the Travellers and The Ducks and the Tortoise
- en_US APLgPrnt1
- Description
- Val Biro?
- Creator
- en_US Biro, Val See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Biro, Val
- Date
- 2019-07-05T20:12:44Z
- 2019-05
- en_US 2013
- Date Available
- 2019-07-05T20:12:44Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2013
- Abstract
- en_US Award Publications had already published a pamphlet of these two stories illustrated by Biro in 2001. Now it comes out in a large print edition meant for children. The size is the same (8½" x 9½") but the print is larger. TB has an older and a younger friend. The latter forsakes the former. The bear surprises them at very close range and chases them. Does not this element hurt the story when the chasing bear comes upon one of the two men suddenly dead? The old man is offering his staff as a weapon for the young man to use when the latter climbs up into the tree. Biro's illustrations have fun with the story. The inciting element in TT is not drought or any other danger but the tortoise's desire to fly. Whereas the tortoise in many versions of this story opens his mouth to say something harsh in response to the crowd, the tortoise here opines that the people below must think that he is very clever. Apparently the "thump" of his fall does no permanent damage to the tortoise.
- Identifier
- en_US 11582 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Award Publications Limited
- en_US Worksop, Nottinghamshire
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.B57Be 2013 See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection