The Singing Tortoise And Other Animal Folktales

Title

en_US The Singing Tortoise And Other Animal Folktales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First U.S. edition

en_US By John Yeoman

Creator

en_US Yeoman, John

Contributor

en_US Blake, Quentin

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:42Z

en_US 2000-06

en_US 1994

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1994

Abstract

en_US Blake's illustrations are always fun. Here they accompany eleven lively stories, several of which use fable motifs. Thus the jackal in the first story uses the talking house gambit to get the crocodile to declare himself. The ram in the second story uses the thank you for bringing food for my child maneuver to frighten the leopard into running off with the jackal tied to him. The Nigerian title-story is strangely evocative. A man promises a singing tortoise that he will have to sing for this man alone if he takes him along out of the jungle, but the man is soon overcome with the desire to tell others the secret that this tortoise speaks. He sets the tortoise up for a public performance, and the tortoise does not speak. As soon as the man is beheaded, the tortoise speaks up to tell people that they were wrong to behead him, as the man had been wrong to make his speaking ability public. The Rabbit and the Elephants (89) is straight from the Panchatantra. The last chapter, A World of Folktales, gives the provenance of each tale. Alternating pairs of pages have, respectively, colored and brown-and-white illustrations. First published, apparently in 1993, in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz.

Identifier

en_US 0688133665 (trade)

en_US 3780 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79127

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Tambourine Books: William Morrow & Company

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.Y35 Si 1994

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole