Lion Fables Bengali and English

Title

en_US Lion Fables Bengali and English

en_US Orm7

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Bengali

Jan Ormerod; Bengali Translation by Raihana Mahbub

Creator

en_US Ormerod, Jan

Contributor

en_US Ormerod, Jan

Date

2020-01-23T19:30:39Z

2020-01

en_US 2007

Date Available

2020-01-23T19:30:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 2007

Abstract

en_US This is a large-format (11" x 9 1/4") landscape book presenting two fables: LM and "The Hare's Revenge" in Bengali and English. The illustrations seem to use about three or four colors, typically tan, brown, pink, and green. LM uses the green effectively for the lion's eyes. The mouse promises when caught to be the lion's friend forever. "Who knows, one day I might even save your life." The mouse needs apparently almost a full twenty-four hours to gnaw the lion free from his net. "The Hare's Revenge" is labeled as a Malaysian fable, but its main "trick" is well known in "Panchatantra" and KD circles. Here there is no agreement of all the animals to supply the lion with food. Rather, hare has had to listen to the lion's boasting too often and can stand it no longer. So he gets his revenge in the way the KD story follows, that is, by getting the lion jealous of a (fictive) lion who claims to be stronger. The hare then leads the lion to the well where this supposed rival lives. Here, in a fine illustration repeated on the cover, the lion's eyes are not green but reddish. This version does not include the fictive rabbit captured by the fictive lion. The final picture of the lion leaping into the well is particularly good. There are suggestions for teachers for both fables on a page between the two fables. The book is Talking Pen enabled. This book is one of some eighteen bilingual editions combining other languages with English for these fables. Unfortunately, they are a little on the expensive side! I now have Bengali, simplified Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, and Albanian with Tamil on the way.

Identifier

en_US 12183 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125878

Language

en_US eng|ben

Publisher

en_US Mantra Lingua Ltd.

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ90.B46O76 2007

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