La Tortuga y la Liebre: Una Fábula de Esopo: The Tortoise and the Hare: An Aesop's Fable

Title

en_US La Tortuga y la Liebre: Una Fábula de Esopo: The Tortoise and the Hare: An Aesop's Fable

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Spanish

en_US First edition

en_US Contada por Angela McAllister

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Heale, Jonathan

Date

2016-01-25T20:19:44Z

en_US 2012-07

en_US 2009

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:19:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US This is my third bilingual presentation of this fable by the same people, along with one just in English. The other two combine English with French and Polish respectively. This is a landscape-formatted, unpaginated, well-executed large book. McAllister is careful in her English telling of the tale. I say English because a few elements like elevenses might look strange to readers in the USA. In McAllister's telling, the tortoise has a strategy from the start, as is clear when he rejects the hare's suggestion of a short race to the hedge and back. 'That's not far enough,' said Tortoise. 'We'll race down the lane, past the mill and across the meadow to the bridge.' The mill is important, because the tortoise knows that the hare will find carrots there, just as the meadow will invite a nap in the hot midday sun. Perhaps the best of Heale's good colored woodcuts depicts the smiling tortoise as he comes upon the carrot tops lying scattered at the mill. The sleeping tortoise meanwhile dreams of leaping over the moon, while all the rabbits cheer. Of course that cheer is for the tortoise already struggling toward the bridge. The rabbits cheer again for the hare when he promises after the race not to boast any more. The story closes with the tired tortoise asking the hare to carry him home. The first several pages in this copy are crimped at the top.

Identifier

en_US 9781845079475 (hc.)

en_US 8479 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83708

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Frances Lincoln Children's Books

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ74.2.M355 Tor 2009

en_US One story

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole