Fábulas de Esopo Coquito 1
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Santillana, Everardo Zapata
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2020
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This set of six books joins just three other volumes in our collection printed in Peru. There are four parts to this 112-page 6" x 8" paperback. Each has its own list of coming fables. All of them come together in a final T of C. There is at least one lively cartoon illustration for each fable, apt for a quick view in a slide lecture. The cover illustration of FC is typical. The lazy fox leans against the tree in his tank-top and reaches out a paw to catch the wedge of Swiss cheese. Another well-illustrated fable is the last, "The Lion and the Rabbit" (109-110). As the cover advertises, there are here 92 fables, each with a rhymed couplet moral. Each fable has a set of three questions titled "Comprension lectora." Good questions! I am surprised by the fable and moral on 17, concluding "Coins are the tears of the rich." Each section starts with a full-page illustration. Perhaps the best of the four shows the goatherd with the goat whose horn has been broken (59). "The Monkey Mother" is graphically presented, with the despised child hanging onto her tail (23). The illustration for "The Drunk and His Wife" (39) is singular! She wears a mask to try to scare him! I seem to see a slight shift in some stories from the traditional version. Thus "Death and the Woodman" becomes "Death and the Failed Businessman" (89).
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Ediciones Dene S.A.
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13438 (Access ID)