Best of More Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Best of More Aesop's Fables

en_US Tiny Tot Best of Series

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Edited by Shyam Dua

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T15:37:25Z

en_US 2013-12

en_US 2012

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:37:25Z

Date Issued

en_US 2007

Abstract

en_US Here are 69 fables on some 144 pages, with a T of C on 4-7. In each of the two-page configurations there is text on the left with a surrounding color frame of the story's background. The right-hand page is a full-page, simple colored picture. The typeface of the text changes to allow getting the whole text onto one page. Only the last story lacks a right-hand page and so a corresponding illustration. One finds typical Indian influence in The Hermit and the Bear, which now features a monkey and a king (142-3). Similarly, we find a crow, a fox, and a rabbit where we would expect, respectively, an eagle, a cat, and a rabbit (10). In FC, the crow steals a biscuit (32). The eagle raises the tortoise up in his beak and then lets him fly (114). Notice the error in The Crow's Advise (sic, 118). In LM's illustration, the mouse uses a sword to cut the lion's net (128)! The title-page picture repeats the good presentation of DS on 135. I am surprised to find this anecdote among the fables: King Bruce and the Spider (136), but it is a good anecdote! New to me and clever is the story The Silver Key (140) in which a traveller outwits his niggardly host. The dustjackets match the covers. The Rat and the Elephant is on the front cover. This book complements another in the series, Best of Aesop's Fables, listed under 2007/13.

Identifier

en_US 10020 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76016

Publisher

en_US Tiny Tot Publications

en_US Noida, India

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.D83Bes 2012

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole