Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Graeme Kent

Creator

en_US Hamilton, Tessa

Contributor

en_US Hamilton, Tessa

Date

2016-01-25T15:24:29Z

en_US 1992-05

en_US 1991

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:24:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 1991

Abstract

en_US Brimax keeps producing! This time the effort is well worth it. Kent's text (identical with that in Aesop's Fables from Brimax [1981/88] and that in Aesop's Fables from Checkerboard [1989]) is careful and thoughtful. The sun and the wind bet on which can separate a traveller from his cloak. Slow and steady can win the race. The visual approach is unusual. The backgrounds are varied, the borders clever, and the illustrations lively (single or double paged). They are echoed in each case by at least one Bewick reproduction (mostly generic, a few showing fables themselves) and sometimes by a small repetition of a detail from the larger picture. The morals are nicely captioned within the borders. The grand prize goes to The Eagle and the Beetle (92-3). Other good illustrations feature the mouse thumbing his nose at the bull (10-11), a face on the back of a groaning wagon (18), an exhausted town mouse back home (37), an astronomer at the bottom of a well (44), a chagrined fox (65), the tortoise's shell-like house (77), tree-faces (90-1), a knight on a broken-down horse in the farmyard (98), a freezing spendthrift sitting over a bunny-hole (111), and a mangy crow that has tried to be a swan (121). AI at the beginning.

Identifier

en_US 861126297

en_US 1182 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75966

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Brimax

en_US Newmarket, England

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.K44 Ae 1991

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole