Fables and Tales from Africa

Title

en_US Fables and Tales from Africa

en_US Instructor Literature Series

Description

en_US Eliot Kays Stone

Creator

en_US Stone, Eliot Kays

Date

2016-01-25T16:14:36Z

en_US 1995-11

en_US 1921

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:14:36Z

Date Issued

en_US 1921

Abstract

en_US A pamphlet containing twelve stories for first graders. The Instructor Literature Series contains 306 volumes! The original price was $.07 or less. The fables are again told very simply, as they were in the other booklets in this series, Eleven Fables from Aesop (1906) and More Fables from Aesop (1905). Unlike them, this booklet has no illustrations. The Cunning Cock (3) is a Chanticleer-like story. The Lion and the Baboon (4) has a nice trick and a surprise ending. In The Dove, the Jackal, and the Heron (6), there is an Aesopic element: the jackal recognizes that someone has given the dove a new perspective, since the dove no longer sacrifices her children to the jackal. This story adds an etiological explanation of how the heron's neck got bent. There is another traditional fable trick in The Leopard, the Jackal, and the Ram (9): the ram says to the arriving jackal Friend Jackal, you have done well. You have brought us the Leopard to eat. The Wise Jackal (19) is a slightly different version of the traditional tale of getting the attacker (here a snake) back into his original captivity (here pinned under a stone). The Frog's Horse (22) is an Uncle Remus and African tale. The Lion, the Jackal, and the Hyena (24) is the Aesopic sick lion fable, with the wolf and fox using the lion's illness to attack and even destroy each other. The Trumpeter (26) is too long for a fable but very nice.

Identifier

en_US 2227 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77786

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US F.A. Owen Publishing Company

en_US Dansville, NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.S76 Af 1921a

en_US African

Type

Pamphlet