Ageless Fables

Title

en_US Ageless Fables

Description

en_US Rhymes by Seldon Thomas Childers

Creator

en_US Buck, Diana

Contributor

en_US Buck, Diana

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:38Z

en_US 2012-07

en_US 2011

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 2011

Abstract

en_US Apparently privately printed, though sold on Amazon. Forty fables on iv + 81 pages. 8 x 10. Each fable gets a two-page spread including a page of verse text sometimes with some colored ornament and a full-page colored illustration. A sampling of the texts suggests heavy influence from rhyme and meter; my test for that influence lies in filler phrases not needed by the story. The illustrations are lively and apt. The Scorpion and the Frog is a good early example (2). The Kirkus Review on the final page rightly praises this strophe in this fable: 'Whoa,' said Frog, 'Ya think I'm daft?/ To use my body for a raft,/ and haul a cargo such as you,/ one quick stick could kill us two!' Besides other good traditional fables like GA, FC, TMCM, and DW, there are other stories here, like The Three Pigs (33). In this book's version of OF, the frog wants to be as big as a horse, and he tries to do it by drinking himself bigger (13). MSA here involves a horse, and there is a dramatic picture of the two humans carrying the horse (28). In FM, the hawk chooses to drop the mouse and grab the frog; how can he when they are tied to each other (45)? Tassy is about a Tasmanian Devil that spun everything level; he spun up his own ear and is now a level devil (57). The final page suggests that this is a print on demand book.

Identifier

en_US 9781460933756

en_US 8874 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84085

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US CreateSpace

en_US Lexington, KY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.C453 Ag 2011

en_US Aesop and others

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole