Beastly Tales from Here and There

Title

Beastly Tales from Here and There

en_US Belfast Telegraph Children's Collection #12

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Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

Vikram Seth

Creator

en_US Seth, Vikram See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Shankar, Ravi

Date

2016-04-20T15:51:44Z

en_US 2015-07

2004

Date Available

2016-04-20T15:51:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 2004

Abstract

This is my fifth edition of Ravi Shankar's illustrations and my sixth of Vikram Seth's stories. The original copyright seems to have belonged to Viking Penguin in India in 1992, though subsequent editions usually trace their heritage back to Phoenix House in 1993. Phoenix also did a paperback edition in 1994. Penguin Viking did a smaller hardbound version in 2005, and Puffin in India did a version illustrated by Prabha Mallya in 2013. Now comes this "promotional edition" that is #12 in the Belfast Telegraph Children's Collection. The back of the dust jacket advertises "Next Week: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." The error "seranade" remains uncorrected here on 71. As I wrote, when I first found the book, the ten well told, witty tales in verse include two slightly expanded from Aesop but with different contemporary twists. The eagle dies of grief over the beetle's continual destruction of his eggs wrought out of vengeance for the beetle's old friend, the hare. And the female hare ends up losing the race but winning all the press acclaim. The other tales come two each from India, China, the Ukraine, and "the Land of Gup." "The Mouse and the Snake" from China is a good fable with an ironic ending comment. "The Cat and the Cock" from the Ukraine uses repeated lines very well. In #9, the frog manager ruins the nightingale and never knows it. One black-and-white line sketch with each story, two with the last.

Identifier

10725 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/85505

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

Paperview

London

Subject

en_US PR9499.3.S38B43 2004 See all items with this value

Collection See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole