The Blind Man & the Cripple/Orchard Village

Title

en_US The Blind Man & the Cripple/Orchard Village

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English and Cambodian

en_US Original language: chi

en_US Edited by Emily Ching, Dr. Theresa Austin, and Sonnarith Chan

Creator

en_US Austin, Theresa

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:00Z

en_US 2014-06

en_US 1992

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 1992

Abstract

en_US Note that this is the Cambodian bilingual as opposed to the Vietnamese bilingual version. The first of two stories here is an extension/application of Florian's story of the blind man and the cripple. Here they live in a temple and bicker with each other regularly. When a fire breaks out in the temple, they need to work together and they find a good apportionment of the work: the blind man carries the lame man and follows his directions. One of the best illustrations is on 10-11: the blind man carries the lame man out of the flames, and two mice echo the two humans in their escape. Orchard Village is a pleasing story. A man who has bought a field finds a clump of gold. He tries to return it to the man who sold him the field -- unsuccessfully. Together they try to give it to their two children who are marrying, but their offer is rejected. Finally, they decide to use the money for something that can benefit everyone in the village, namely an irrigation canal for their fruit-trees. After each story there is a Parental Guide pointing out the things that can be learned from the story. The book is unusually well constructed. The illustrations meet, for example, perfectly at the center of a pagespread. I bought the Vietnamese-English version of this same book from the same library eight years earlier! It is listed under the same title and year, but notice that one of the editors has changed. This is my first book containing Cambodian.

Identifier

en_US 9781561621286

en_US 10123 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76112

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Exclusively distributed by Pan Asian Publications (USA)

en_US Cerritos, CA

Subject

en_US PZ90.K493 H7413 1992

en_US One fable

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole