Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Retold and Illustrated by Brad Sneed

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Sneed, Brad

Date

2016-01-25T19:29:08Z

en_US 2004-09

en_US 2003

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:29:08Z

Date Issued

en_US 2003

Abstract

en_US This is a very lively and colorful oversized children's book featuring two-page spreads for fifteen fables. Realism, exaggeration, color, and dynamism mark the visual style; sometimes the animals, and especially their faces, become contorted. Some tellings here have fun with the traditional story, as when the tortoise who has begged for flying lessons begs in falling for landing lessons. When the wolf threatens the poor crane who has removed the bone, he tells her to leave before he eats her for dessert. I promise to chew every bite forty times! The country mouse leaves upon hearing the first sound of approaching dogs. GA has a good moral: It is best to finish your chores before you play. The best illustration may be the first for The Stag at the Pool: we see only four spindly legs up to a point above the knee, along with their reflection in the water. Both illustrations of OF are good, including the one where a frog seems to sit on a giant blotch, apparently what is left of his exploded father. The Fox, the Rooster, and the Dog suffers, I think, from having the dog physically present. The story runs better with a dog that the clever rooster concocts. This is among the better recent Aesop fables books for kids, I think.

Identifier

en_US 803727518

en_US 5153 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80731

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dial Books for Young Readers: Penguin Young Readers Group

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.S56 Ae 2003

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole