The Children's Aesop

Title

en_US The Children's Aesop

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Second printing

en_US Stephanie Calmenson

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Byrd, Robert

Date

2016-01-25T20:20:03Z

en_US 1995-01

en_US 1992

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:20:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 1992

Abstract

en_US This printing of a delightful book is almost exactly the same as a book already in the collection in the same year. The differences include these: not Caroline House but Boyds Mills Press is on the title-page; the list price is not $11.95 but $14.95 (in less than a year!); it lists printings on the verso of its title-page and announces this as the second printing; it adds Distributed by St. Martin's Press on the same verso; and it came packaged with an audio cassette. As I wrote of the first printing, this book is well done! Twenty-eight fables generally given two pages apiece for the tale and the picture, with a moral clearly boxed in a different color at the end. Well told, especially for children, with morals that make sense, and razzle-dazzle illustrations. The fables with the best tellings are FC, The Fox and the Goat, GB, and MSA. The best illustrations include the great fox pictured on the cover with the humanoid arm reaching for the grapes, FC, and the first picture for MSA. Several stories are differently told: the picky heron becomes a flamingo; the father using a bundle of sticks is going on a trip; the boy shouting Wolf wants company, not a laugh; the gnat kicks the bull's horn--without effect--before he leaves; the mother cat between the sow and the eagle dies, and they discover her deceit and are reconciled; and the endangered traveler, asked what the bear said, tells the other traveller Next time you see him, ask him yourself. One example of a good moral is that for WL: Those who are out to hurt you will use any excuse. A fine book.

Identifier

en_US 1563970414

en_US 8543 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83772

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Boyd Mills Press

en_US Honesdale, PA

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.C34 Ch 1992b

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole