In Fableland

Title

en_US In Fableland

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Emma Serl

Creator

en_US Serl, Emma

Contributor

en_US Wood, Harry E.

Date

2016-01-25T15:52:54Z

en_US 1996-08

en_US 1911

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:52:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 1911

Abstract

en_US A delightful little book, found twice in a few months after years of never seeing it. I am keeping three copies in the collection. The first is the cleanest by far. How nice to have found something in El Paso! The Gallagher copy has delightful coloring, almost certainly not from the publisher, in tones of beige and lime; it also has many torn pages and much foxing. The Mosbacher copy has its endpapers reversed; it comes from the Antioch School. The Walk a Crooked Mile copy is missing the back endpaper and has some crayoning. I like Wood's illustrations, for example of the fox leaving the goat in the well (71), the city mouse with its nose up in the air (82), and the cat getting chestnuts from the outdoors fire (155). They remind me of Harry Rountree's work. The animals all have names here, and there is a good deal of interaction between them, sometimes in order to tie stories together. Thirty-four fables. Some stories are expanded, e.g., FG (35) and The Lion's Share (39). There are several fables here from fabulists other than Aesop: The Hare and Her Friends (30), The Blue Wolf (109), and The Lion and the Echo (160, new to me). The hare has never seen a tortoise before (130). There is a surprising addition to The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing : the shepherd sees two of his sheep, but one of them is eating the other (146)! The cat and monkey drop the chestnuts into the coals (153). The morals are often announced, especially by the fox, within the story, sometimes without much provocation.

Identifier

en_US 1329 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76905

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Silver Burdett & company,

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.S33 In 1911

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole