Fables

Title

en_US Fables

Description

en_US Signed with a cartoon by Lobel

en_US Arnold Lobel

Creator

en_US Lobel, Arnold

Contributor

en_US Lobel, Arnold

Date

2016-12-01T20:16:37Z

en_US 2016-06

en_US 1983

Date Available

2016-12-01T20:16:37Z

Date Issued

en_US 1980

Abstract

en_US This copy of Nobel's wonderful work is almost exactly like a softbound copy received from Liz Willems. The one difference I can note is the absence of a bar code on the back cover. Might that make it an earlier printing? Added to this book is a Lobel cartoon with his signature on the first title-page and a dating, 1983. Here is a curiosity: Lobel signed my hardbound version of the book from Mad Dog and Pilgrim in Denver with almost exactly the same cartoon: a profile of a pelican face. Let me add what I wrote on the Willems gift. A Caldecott Award winner, and rightly so. One-page tales, perhaps animal short stories rather than fables, face excellent illustrations. The best are perhaps "The Hen and the Apple Tree" and "The Elephant and the Sun," but also good are "King Lion and the Beetle," "Baboon's Umbrella," "The Ostrich in Love," "The Poor Old Dog," "The Pelican and the Crane," and "The Mouse at the Seashore." Contrast "Camel" with the Aesopic fable on the same subject.

Identifier

en_US cf. 558.1

en_US 10973 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/107703

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Harper & Row

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.L6Fab 1983

en_US Lobel

Type

en_US Book, Whole