Fairy Tales: Kaski

Title

en_US Fairy Tales: Kaski

en_US Let's Read in English

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Russian

Contributor

en_US Resakova, Opena

Date

2017-05-15T20:34:03Z

en_US 2016-12

en_US 2008

Date Available

2017-05-15T20:34:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 2008

Abstract

en_US There are four tales here in this oversize hardbound book, and the last two are fables. FS is the third tale. The unusual feature of this story is that the crane is male and the fox female. One of the nicest features of this presentation of FS is the elaborate visual presentation of what a Russian home might have looked like to a visiting crane. The consistency of the crane's meal is clearly indicated: "he took meat, potato, beet, and some other food, chopped it all and put it in a jar with a thin neck." This version struggles regularly with language, as may be apparent from the end of the FS story: "So she liked the crane's treating! Since that time the fox doesn't make friends with cranes." In the last of the four stories, two bears find a ball of cheese but don't know how to divide it equally. A fox steps up and begins to devour the cheese each time it appears to be in unequal parts. The biggest lapses of the English translator may appear in this story. "The bears were sitting, licking and turning their noses but and ben: from a smaller piece to a bigger one, from a bigger piece to a smaller one." "But and ben?" The book is filled with pleasant little animal characters doing things like blowing bubbles, as on the last page giving otherwise bibliographical information.

Identifier

en_US 11205 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/113047

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Kazka

en_US Kyiv, Ukraine

Subject

en_US Ovr. PZ90.U37F35 2008

en_US Russian

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole