The Tortoise and the Hare: An Aesop's Fable

Title

en_US The Tortoise and the Hare: An Aesop's Fable

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Retold by Angela McAllister

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Heale, Jonathan

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:23Z

en_US 2002-06

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US 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. I am delighted to have found this book in a renewed Foyle's, the world's greatest bookshop.

Identifier

en_US 711217319

en_US 4445 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80114

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Frances Lincoln Limited

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.M355 Tor 2001

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole