Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US Minedition

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First impression

en_US English text adaptation by Martin West German original by Renate Raecke

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Imai, Ayano

Date

2016-01-25T15:47:39Z

en_US 2013-10

en_US 2013

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:47:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 2013

Abstract

en_US I had found the 2012 German original of this lovely book in Mannheim fifteen months ago. This book was pre-ordered through Amazon, and so it is indeed a first impression. I will repeat comments I made there. The book is unusual in opening not from right to left but from down to up; that is, one needs to hold it sideways and lift the cover. The cover picture shows the half-painted jackdaw as he returns after opening his craw and being recognized by the doves whose food he was eating. Why does his fellow jackdaw have various colored feathers protruding from his black body and even one such feather in his beak? The pearl that the rooster finds in CJ is part of a ring. The little goat dancing for the wolf uses a hula-hoop! The expanding frog in OF is about to reach the ceiling of a modernistic garden-house! He is elevated off the floor like a helium-filled balloon. The one illustration for FS includes both the plate for the stork and the vase for the fox. In fact, the wall behind the stork features several plates and the floor behind the fox shows three large vases with steam bubbles emerging from them. The resting hare in TH has a hammock slung across the trail. The dropped meat bubbles through the text, dividing its lines in DS. The grapes break down through the ceiling of the fox's room in FG as clouds blow through the windows. The city mouse is fishing in the soup at the city meal in TMCM! A highway--or a racetrack?--winds among cheese wedges and salt and pepper shakers in this fable's tailpiece. The rack of the stag in the pool reaches out like a tree and even includes a birdhouse! What lovely imaginative work! The book is, as regularly with Neugebauer, beautifully produced.

Identifier

en_US 9888240528

en_US 9911 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76721

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Michael Neugebauer Publishing Ltd.

en_US Hong Kong

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 Im 2013

en_US Aesop

Type

en_US Book, Whole