The Little Swineherd and Other Tales

Title

en_US The Little Swineherd and Other Tales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Paula Fox

Creator

en_US Fox, Paula

Contributor

en_US Byrd, Robert

Date

2016-01-25T20:12:01Z

en_US 2002-05

en_US 1996

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:12:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 1996

Abstract

en_US Here is a frame story followed by five shorter tales, called fables by the flyleaf. The stories were originally published in 1978 but are here newly illustrated. The stories are meaningful and well-crafted. I read the first four. The frame story concerns a frustrated duck who wants to manage talent. His circus has just collapsed when a juggling cat apparently ate the mice audience in the midst of her act. The duck encounters a goose finishing telling a tale to some frogs, and he immediately wants to become her manager. The first story comes as a sort of trial: The Little Swineherd. It is considerably longer than the other four stories. The foundling swineheard finds himself alone but soon learns from Ira Winks and makes his way in the world. After this story, the goose, asked by the duck for a shorter story, offers her version of GA, which centers on one ant who is touched by the grasshopper's imagination and takes care of him through the winter. They lived in quite a happy way for some time (57). Not forever? the duck asks. There's no such thing, one of the frogs answers. The little story is graced by an excellent illustration. In her next offering, a rooster sees himself in a mirror, becomes even more enamored with himself, and eventually gets to the roof of the barnyard, only to find himself afraid to get back down. After some tough days up there, he returns to earth chastened. A millstone pony goes off to see the world in a straight line but finds himself first gathering a troop of fellow travelers and then circling right back to his usual round. It is a shame, I believe, that the interior illustrations are black-and-white. The cover's colored illustration of the swineherd boy is so charming, and the interior illustrations are carefully done.

Identifier

en_US 9780525453987

en_US 7865 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83116

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dutton Children's Books

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ7.F838 Lt 1996

en_US Paula Fox

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole