Tales from Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Tales from Aesop's Fables

en_US Nursery Classics

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Retold by Stephanie Laslett

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Hussey, Lorna

Date

2016-01-25T19:01:39Z

en_US 2001-06

en_US 1999

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:01:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 1999

Abstract

en_US This book fits between smaller and larger versions already published by Parragon. It is first a larger version of the mini classic The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse And Other Aesop's Fables, listed under 1994? What is different? First, the page size. All the pages are blown up from 3 3/8 x 4¼ in that version to 4½ x 5¾ in this one. Second, the number of stories has increased from three to nine, the same nine that appear in the same publisher's larger Aesop's Fables of 1996. Thirdly, a T of C is added at the front. Fourthly, several other elements are added: a title-page and detailed illustrations of the main characters, all generated from illustrations offered during the story, in TMCM; larger titles in LM and FC; and a final detail illustration in FC. What was called Aesop at the back of the smaller book has become, with the loss of its first sentence, a History of fables at the front of the larger book. This larger book has lost the page-numbers that we find in the smaller one. By comparison with the larger Aesop's Fables of 1996, this book has all the same illustrations but adds many more to each story. More of Laslett's text appears than had appeared in that book, and she is acknowledged here. Hussey, by contrast, is not acknowledged here. Hussey's art may show off to best advantage in this middle-sized format. I like especially the expressions that she puts on the tortoise's face. DLS gives a great deal of attention to the killing of the lion; Hussey's several depictions of the dressed-up donkey are very good. The fox without a tail, once shamed in public, slunk away into the deepest depths of the forest and there as the days passed he learned to live without his tail and no-one thought any the worse of him.

Identifier

en_US 752531492

en_US 3883 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79223

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Parragon Publishing

en_US Bath, UK

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 Las 1999

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole