Animal Fables and Other Tales Retold

Title

en_US Animal Fables and Other Tales Retold

Description

en_US Apparent first edition

en_US Retold by Enid F. D'Oyley

Creator

en_US D'Oyley, Enid

Contributor

en_US Illustrations by Larissa Kauperman

Date

2016-01-25T19:13:08Z

en_US 2003-06

en_US 1982

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:13:08Z

Date Issued

en_US 1982

Abstract

en_US Here is the Canadian first edition of a book I had found in its first US edition from 1988. I had long overlooked the discrepancy, and I even wondered whether it was worth including this copy in the collection. Surprise! Let me repeat some of what I wrote there. That book is a thirty-five page pamphlet containing twelve stories with six illustrations. Here I find forty pages, and the pagination is different. The stories are not fables but rather folktales brought especially by the Yoruba to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the Southern USA. The black-and-white art at least suggests a perspective different from mainline North American. The stories have plenty of standard folktale material: gods, etiology, boasting, tricking, and magic. The best of the stories is The Tortoise and the Elephant (23). Note The Monkey and the Wax Doll (34), our Tar Baby story. Some stories here tend to start new episodes when the story is already well done or to take it all back in the last sentence (e.g., 38). Did the 1988 US version skip the middle initial on the title-page--or did D'Oyley drop it in the intervening six years?

Identifier

en_US 0887950205

en_US 4595 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80250

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Williams-Wallace International

en_US Toronto

Subject

en_US PR9199.3.D65 A8 1982

en_US African, Brazilian, and Caribbean

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

Pamphlet