City Mouse & Country Mouse: A Classic Fairy Tale

Title

en_US City Mouse & Country Mouse: A Classic Fairy Tale

en_US Abbeville Classic Fairy Tales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Translated by Molly Stevens

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Chatellard, Isabelle

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:12Z

en_US 2008-06

en_US 2007

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:12Z

Date Issued

en_US 2007

Abstract

en_US This book is almost identical with an edition that Abbeville did in The Little Pebbles series in 1999. Let me start by noting the differences. First, this edition belongs to a different series, Abbeville Classic Fairy Tales. Secondly, it comes in a boxed set with three other books. The box is titled Animal Fables, and it contains this book and Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Three Little Pigs. None of the latter three seem to me to be fables! All three of these books were earlier in The Little Pebbles series. Thirdly, this book, like the other three, is now printed not in France but in China. Fourthly, the book now has a publication date, with the other three books, of 2007. Fifthly, the publisher now lists offices only in New York and London; Paris has dropped. Sixthly, the text of the fable, apparently identical, has been newly typeset in larger print. Let me repeat the comments I made about the 1999 book. First published in 1998 in French by Editions Nathan in Paris. Delightful and imaginative art work, starting from the lawn chairs in which we first see the mice, lawn chairs apparently growing out of the tops of stalks of wheat. The city visit is a week later and takes place in the house of a rich shopkeeper. The mice are doing their feasting on the bottom shelf of the kitchen cupboard when they are interrupted by the cook. Soon they are on the top shelf when the cat interrupts them. Next they head for the basement where the country mouse almost falls for a mouse trap. That trap is the last straw, and the country mouse heads politely for home. He lives happily ever after in the fields. Eight small versions of the illustrations are presented at the end with the challenge to put them back in the right order. A very nice little book with very stiff covers.

Identifier

en_US 9780789209511 (hbk.)

en_US 6369 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81695

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Abbeville Publishing Group

en_US Enfield

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A535 2007

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole