Animal Fables from Aesop

Title

en_US Animal Fables from Aesop

Description

en_US First softcover printing

en_US Adapted and illustrated by Barbara McClintock

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US McClintock, Barbara

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:54Z

en_US 2002-11

en_US 2000

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 2000

Abstract

en_US Here is a fine paperback version of the original 1991 hardbound version, also done by Godine. Let me repeat my comments there, except to say that I had complained about the hardback cost. Now the paperback cost is less than a third that of the hardbound. As I write there, this book is a serious entry into the classic Aesopic tradition. Exceptional color illustrations in the anthropomorphic tradition of Grandville. The only flaw I see in the presentation of the nine fables is some softening of realism in both story and picture. Several pictures try to be cute while telling, and telling loses in the bargain; the fox and lamb are only carried away, not killed, when they are caught. WL is situated on a road, not by a river. TMCM is closely modeled after Jacobs' version. In an excellent last illustration, the humans who make up the cast take off their animal masks. Other excellent pictures show the crow losing his cheese; the crow frustrated over the loss; the fox winking over his soup; the wolf pointing a finger down at the lamb; the crow at the peacock ball (note the peacock statue!); the fox's fall; and the fox buying grapes from a mouse. A real treat.

Identifier

en_US 1567921442 (softcover : alk. paper)

en_US 4546 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80207

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US David R. Godine

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.M387 An 2000

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole