Disabled Fables: Aesop's Fables Retold and Illustrated by Artists with Developmental Disabilities

Title

en_US Disabled Fables: Aesop's Fables Retold and Illustrated by Artists with Developmental Disabilities

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Seleccionadas e ilustradas por Michael Hague

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Penn, Sean (Foreword)

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:04Z

en_US 2005-04

en_US 2004

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:04Z

Date Issued

en_US 2004

Abstract

en_US The fourteen artists who each contribute one fable to this book are members of L.A. Goal, which provides services for developmentally disabled adults. I would hope that it is one of the glories of this fable collection that it lays hold of an unusual book like this and saves it for future generations. The tellings are sometimes a bit unusual. In the first fable, the fox who has conversed with the cat about his many modes of escape actually does get away finally by running out of the forest (12). The crow who finds a pitcher with some water in it had first rejected the Hudson River because it is too dirty (16)! The miser is a woman this time, and she digs up her gold every week in order to look at it (18). Her neighbor advises her to look at her hole. The boy who ends up crying Wolf! is lonely and tries the trick in order to get company (28). Are there really reverse Dalmatians with white spots on black (40)? At the end of each story there is a good short section titled What this story means to me. These reflections often bear eloquent testimony to the struggles which their authors have experienced. Todd Rubien, for example, speaks eloquently a propos of The Shepherd Boy of his own loneliness and that sharing feelings is a better way to combat loneliness than creating emergencies. People respond better when we see them as friends than when we see them as enemies. There is also a separate, framed moral for each fable. The moral for TMCM is It's better to live in peace than in pieces (23). The art is often simple, direct, and good. Among the work that attracts me the most are The Fox and the Cat (12), The Stork (38), The Bear and the Bees (43), and FG (47). Reading through this book is a treat!

Identifier

en_US 1932065970

en_US 5387 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80929

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Star Bright Books

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PS508.P56 D57 2004

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole