Item
New Aesop Fables for Children, Volume 1
- Title
- en_US New Aesop Fables for Children, Volume 1
- Description
- Robert W. Long
- Creator
- en_US Long, Robert W. See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Sakai, Yuko
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:10Z
- 2023-11
- en_US 2008
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:10Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2008
- Abstract
- en_US This book follows up on three others by the author: "Giga: New Aesopian Fables for the 21st Century" (2004); "The Buddha's Journey Home: New Buddhist Fables" (2005); and "New Aesop Fables" (2005). The present book offers 45 traditional fables turned, in a friendlier way than Bierce did, towards surprising results. The donkey asks the crickets where they get their great singing. "We eat only the morning dew." "Crazy," responds the donkey. "I'll just eat my corn and oatmeal, because I like them." Three men see some luscious grapes but disagree vehemently over their best use, and the owner chases them away. The rats lure the cat into a mousetrap and then tie a bell around its neck. A dog puts his steak down on a bridge and admires himself in the water. His self-admiration wakes another dog who picks up the steak and races off with it. The grasshopper makes it through winter singing and dancing in the warm homes of his friends. Many of the fables are illustrated with part-page or full-page illustrations. FM (37) may be the best of the illustrations. 7⅜" x 9⅝". By the "Volume I" on the cover, I think we can expect further installments.
- Identifier
- en_US 13486 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Lulu Press
- en_US Morrisville, NC
- Subject
- Robert W. Long See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection