The Real Picture Book

Title

en_US The Real Picture Book

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Valdemar Paulsen et al

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Winter, Milo

Date

2016-01-25T16:18:34Z

en_US 1997-01

en_US 1929

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:18:34Z

Date Issued

en_US 1929

Abstract

en_US This is a beautiful, large picture-book drawing from nine favorites, including such titles as The Real Story Book, The Illustrated Bible Story Book, and The Peter Patter Book. The introduction evokes a time when for a small child the pictures were everything. The text, you observe, is merely incidental.... The illustrations, always on the right-hand page, are indeed magnificent here! Five fables are included and-for the first time in my awareness-attributed for their texts to Paulsen. The fact that there are few fables here spurred me to examine their texts more carefully, with some surprising results. Thus there are time problems in TMCM (44). After a country lunch, which the town mouse shows that she eats only to be polite, there is some talk, and then they go right to bed, where the country mouse dreams of city life. The next day they travel and find the leavings of a banquet. Are not two versions conflated here, one of which involved immediate travel and the other a country overnight? After intrusions from a cat and later from servants and a dog, the country mouse stops in the town mouse's den only long enough to pick up her carpet bag and umbrella. In The Rose and the Butterfly (49) both are inconstant. In TH (71), the tortoise sugests the race. The hare naps in order to show the tortoise how ridiculous it is for him to run against the hare. In GGE (107), there is an egg every day. The Peacock (119) is new to me. He got the magnificent tail-feathers that he lacked originally but asked for later at the price of having to give up flight. Unfortunately several pages are torn, e.g., the front endpaper, the frontispiece, 37, 41, 47, and 85-92.

Identifier

en_US 2621 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78159

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Rand McNally & Company

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ5 .R43 1929

en_US Collection

Type

en_US Book, Whole