Item
Wisdom: King Midas
- Title
- en_US Wisdom: King Midas
- en_US Tales of Virtue
- en_US TOV 7
- Description
- Adapted by Jennifer Boudart
- Creator
- en_US Boudart, Jennifer See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Goeters, Kristen
- Date
- 2022-10-13T19:19:36Z
- 2004-03
- en_US 2000
- Date Available
- 2022-10-13T19:19:36Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2000
- Abstract
- en_US I include this book because it helps complete a series containing fable books. The book is derived from a parallel hardbound book published by Publications International in 1997, "King Midas: A Tale of Wisdom." Texts are edited and shortened, and two of the illustrations are dropped from that 20-page book in this 16-page pamphlet. As I wrote there, in this development of the Midas legend, Midas is approached by a surprise visitor who offers him the gift of transforming whatever he touches into gold. This visitor is pictured as a grasshopper, and Midas and his beloved daughter Marygold are pictured as something like hedgehogs. The next morning Midas delightedly turns object after object into gold, even the roses loved by Marygold. She comes to him upset over a golden rose. When Midas tries to comfort her with a hug, she too is turned into gold. Midas encounters the same spirit and admits to having learned his lesson. He follows instructions to get water from the river and sprinkle it onto all that has been transformed, and these things then revert to their former state. Once Marygold is transformed back, Midas loses his preoccupation with counting his money and learns to enjoy the great outdoors. "A wise person knows that money or gold cannot buy happiness and that simple things can be the best."
- Identifier
- en_US 12326 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Publications International, Ltd.
- en_US Lincolnwood, IL
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.T344Ws 2000 See all items with this value
- tangential See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection