Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US Pelican Big Books

Description

en_US Third impression

en_US Geraldine McCaughrean

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Illustrated by Jonathan Hateley

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:23Z

en_US 2012-04

en_US 1999

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 1998

Abstract

en_US The cover illustration for this little (5¾ x 8) 48-page pamphlet is simply superb. A wolf in bursting sheep's clothing lies napping contentedly in the pen with a meaty leg on a plate next to him. There is even a jar of mint sauce next to the plate! Speedy Hare is a woman in TH, and a pretty one at that! Her illustration has her lingering to sign an autograph for a squirrel. The gray crow contrasts nicely with his peacock feathers in BF on 11. His de-feathered look two pages later is impressive! Tom fools the townsfolk time after time in BW. In another great illustration, the wolf presses a wet nose to the ear of the sleeping Tom (17). From the look of this version, the wolf kills Tom. They did not miss him till bedtime. And by then, of course, it was much, much too late (19). The moral of GA is Thrift and hard work: the secret of success! (23). The story of the dying lion and the cautious fox is called Get Well Soon (24). The final image of WSC has the shepherd chasing the found-out wolf as his sewn sheepskin is half off (31). Thin In, Stout Out has this simple moral: Greedyguts (32-33). In FK, Jupiter sends down a legs-like-reeds, feet-like-crabs, beak-like-a-rapier, hunger-like-a-wolf sort of stork, who ate and ate and ate (38). WS is well told. Sun asks about a man walking far below Could you strip him stitchless? The man eventually dances naked in the spray of his garden hose. DW is moralized this way: Freedom is better than the most luxurious prison (48). A very nice little booklet!

Identifier

en_US 9780582338937 (Small Format)

en_US 7734 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82991

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Pearson Education Limited: Longman

en_US Harlow

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.M638 Ae 1998

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole