Finscéalta Sionnaigh/Fox Fables

Title

en_US Finscéalta Sionnaigh/Fox Fables

en_US Fox Fables

en_US FxF28

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Irish

Retold by Dawn Casey/Irish translation by Sean O Muimhneachain

Creator

en_US Casey, Dawn See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Jago

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:10Z

2023-11

en_US 2006

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:10Z

Date Issued

en_US 2006

Abstract

en_US This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually. It belongs to a series that offers the same two fables in 33 different bilingual translations. While I have hope at some flea market some day to get all thirty-three, I am coming close to that number by finding one after another in various places. I believe that this is our twenty-eighth. FC is visually splendid! The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts. Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house." The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music. The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable. Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him. In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest. Tiger roars with laughter. Fox answers that he will show tiger. "This I've got to see," tiger says. Fox gets tiger to walk behind him. Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect. Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest. Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy. This story is also strongly illustrated.

Identifier

en_US 13487 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/157851

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Mantra Lingua Ltd

en_US London

Subject

Aesop and Chinese See all items with this value