Item
Aesop's Fables: The Complete Collection
- Title
- en_US Aesop's Fables: The Complete Collection
- Description
- Anthony Vanzelli
- Creator
- en_US Vanzelli, Anthony See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Vanzelli, Anthony
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:11:47Z
- 2028-05
- en_US 2021
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:11:47Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2021
- Abstract
- en_US “5 Minute Bedtime Stories for Kids. More Than 100 Classic Fables and Short Fairy Tales to Help Children & Toddlers Relax and Fall Asleep Fast.” This book, despite its rather high price, is a disappointment. It offers prose narratives of fables in twelve well organized chapters on standard 8½” x 11” paper. There are partial-page colored computer generated cartoons every few fables. Why is it disappointing? For starters, in what sense is it “complete”? Perry’s compendium of Aesop’s fables numbers in the 700’s. The very first fable has the wrong title, confusing “The Tortoise and the Hare” with “The Tortoise and the Eagle.” The subtitle makes reference to fairy tales: Why? Fairy tales and fables are quite distinct, and Aesop belongs generally, I would even say almost exclusively, to the latter. Little problems plague this text. On 63, a picture covers the last part of a sentence. The same page has both mice and rats engaging the lion. Which is it? 108 adds a confusing plus sign in the midst of its prose. 125 refers to “doublons” rather than “doubloons.” Aesop deserves better!
- Identifier
- en_US 12633 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Anthony Vanzelli
- Subject
- Aesop See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection