Angel's The Best of Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Angel's The Best of Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US First edition

en_US Compiled and Retold by B.R. Kishore

Creator

en_US Aesop

Date

2016-01-25T19:27:46Z

en_US 2003-08

en_US 2003

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:27:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 2003

Abstract

en_US There are forty-nine numbered fables here in a paperback book measuring 4¾ x 6¾. There is a T of C at the beginning. Each fable gets two or three simple black-and-white illustrations. Since all of these fables are supposed to be from Aesop, there are fewer surprises in the telling than there are in the other books in this series, namely Angel's Moral Stories I and Angel's Moral Stories II. As in the latter, FM here has the strange involvement of a log, under which the frog swims, and so he loses the mouse who has been on his back (48). As elsewhere in Indian books of fables for children that I have reviewed recently, so here there is the story of the camel who blunders too near King Lion in his dance and is soon consumed by the incensed members of the court (72). A mermaid takes the place of the satyr in Blowing Hot and Cold (102). I do not think that I have seen before The Lion and the Hunting Dog (105): the lion finally answers the dog's barking with a roar, and the frightened dog gets caught in a bush. A wolf, in an unlikely move, saves him from the bush and warns him not to challenge lions. Gay's The Rabbit and His Friends is also here (124).

Identifier

en_US 8176141402

en_US 4828 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80450

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Angel Publishing House

en_US New Delhi, India

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A533 2003

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole