Aesop in Fableland

Title

en_US Aesop in Fableland

Description

en_US Andrew Bailey

Creator

en_US Bailey, Andrew

Contributor

en_US Littlewood, Valerie

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:22Z

en_US 2002-02

en_US 1979

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:22Z

Date Issued

en_US 1979

Abstract

en_US This paperback book of 53 pages narrates the encounter of Aesop with an old man in Fableland, a special kind of dream world (12) in which, as it turns out, the animals, trees, and plants can all talk. Under the man's tutelage, young Aesop sees and undergoes experiences that he will someday write down as fables. Thus he experiences the wind and the sun trying to get a cape off of him. He and the man are approached by a tortoise and then a racing hare. When the old man prepares a delicious stew, hungry animals crowd around, but they have to tell why they are hungry before they can eat. Thus young Aesop hears first-hand the story of DS. A stag then tells how he boasted of his beautiful field, and so all his friends came and ate it up around him! Then we hear from a goat who drank too much in a well and could not get out again. Finally in this chapter we hear from the crow who lost his cheese to the fox. Further along we experience OR, BW, and MM (she trips over a stone). The old man is also something of a doctor and so he meets a star-gazing prophet who has walked into a tree, a crab trying to walk forward, and a girl with her hand stuck in a candy jar. With this girl, Melissa, Aesop encounters a drowning boy, whom he promptly lectures. He and the old man overhear two dogs, a plump watchdog and a thin stray. Then they meet a donkey who buried his piece of gold, and now it has been stolen. Perhaps the best of the black-and-white illustrations is MM on 36. The mysterious old man is pictured in black-and-white on the frontispiece and in color on the back cover.

Identifier

en_US 0426200985 (pbk)

en_US 4441 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80110

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Target Books

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.B35 Ae 1979

Type

en_US Book, Whole