Gem of Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Gem of Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US Language note: English

en_US Aesop

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Wolf, Joseph

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:37Z

en_US 2010-10

en_US 2007

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:37Z

Date Issued

en_US 2007

Abstract

en_US As the blurb at Amazon.com reads, this book collects 120 stories, illustrated by Chinese and English; it is adaptable for middle school students. The vocabularies are about 1500-2000. The last sentence explains the 1500-2000 on the front cover; I take it to mean that this book presumes a reader who knows some 1500 to 2000 English vocabulary words. The focus on vocabulary learning helps to explain one of the book's main features: important vocabulary words are highlighted in reddish purple and translated into Chinese at the bottom of the page. I do not understand the comment about illustrations from Chinese and English. It seems to me that the small designs added to many of the pages are taken from illustrations by either Tenniel or Tenniel-Wolfe. Only three designs are chosen for the last fable, MSA (225). Each new fable begins a new page. There is an English T of C at the beginning. The page layout of this book uses a distinctive format: something like a street sign reading Aesop's Fables in the same reddish purple color occupies the upper corner of a page, with a line extending down to the page number at about mid-page. If I were learning English, I think it would be most enjoyable to do it by reading fables!

Identifier

en_US 7271 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82544

Publisher

en_US Chinese Book Company

en_US Beijing

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 A48 2007 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole