Aesop's Fables
Loading...
Authors
Aesop
Gatti, Anne
Issue Date
1992
Type
Book, Whole
Language
Keywords
Alternative Title
Abstract
A very pleasing book available from this publisher only in the United Kingdom. See the adjacent listing for the first U.S. edition. Salter was born in Cairo, and her art here is in a primitive style after that of Persian miniatures. I like it. It reminds me at times of the work of Jason Carter. The art is nicely varied, including sometimes a small repeater from the major illustration to mark off a fable's moral. The large illustrations sometimes present several different phases of the story. The best illustrations include The Beetle's Revenge (9) and DM with a zebra (39). The frontispiece has Aesop showing a book to a fox. The fifty-eight fables are generally well told. Some morals are unsatisfactory, like that for the too fat fox: Time is a great healer (11). Others hit closer to the mark, like that for The Exiled Jackdaw (49): Don't expect those you have insulted to welcome you back. Gatti helps the story of the transformed cat by adding the cat's promises to give up feline ways (49), but she follows the poor version of SW (73).
Description
Citation
Publisher
Pavilion Books