Kettu ja Haikara: Aisopoksen satuia

Abstract

This book replicates in Finnish the English book Aesop: The Fox and the Stork (1985) from Pelham in London. See my comments there. As in the English, there are twenty fables. Each gets a two-page spread with a full-page colored illustration on the right. Some also have a black-and-white illustration on the left. The figure of death on 9 as he speaks with the wood-gatherer is well done. A skeleton's foot emerges from beneath his robes, as the terrified old man looks up into his face. I enjoy the illustration for FM (33): we see of the bird only its two talons, one of which is firmly around the mouse, to whom the deceitful frog is tied. There is a great fat fox on 38. Otherwise I still do not find the illustrations particularly well done.