151 Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US 151 Aesop's Fables

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Date

2022-11-07T16:12:06Z

2022-11

en_US 2020

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:12:06Z

Date Issued

en_US 2020

Abstract

en_US This book offers 151 numbered fables, usually two per page, each with a computer-generated colored illustration. The book, about 8½" x 11" is 80 pages long. The front cover is a riot of fable moments presented together. There is a T of C on 3-4. The illustrations are not the same as those in Manoj's series of "Sawan World Famous Aesop's Fables." Several of the fables I sampled have different versions from the usual. In DW, the wolf is sick, not simply emaciated (6). In OF, the frog children are only frightened by the ox; there are no deaths. Their father inflates himself to bursting (7). "The Deer with the Golden Horns" (8) differs in several ways from what we are used to. The horns are golden. There is no comment on the deer's legs. His pursuer is a hunter. Also on 8, the trees say to the man with an axe-head "You can take wood from all of us!" "The Wise Dog" is new to me (9). A young boar defeats him. The dog remembers never losing a fight when he was younger. "But now, I am old and you are laughing at me. One day, you will be old too." "The Angry Dog" (16) is told strangely. Both in picture and text, the dog has a dog-house or "kennel." Somehow the cattle have to "cross the dog to reach the manger." Usually the dog is in their manger! The book is in a series of almost fifty books of 151 stories each, including dinosaur tales, folk tales, and Bible stories.

Identifier

en_US 12793 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138974

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Manoj Publications

en_US Delhi, India

Subject

Aesop See all items with this value