Zviratka a Lide (Animals and People)
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Lukavska, Eva
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1995
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Here is a curious Czech book of fables for children. There are four stories here, apparently illustrated by I. Vernet. "Vernet" helped me to track down our collection's booklets of all four fables, attributed to Samaniego and published by Artes Gráficas Cobas in 1987. The first story thus replicates that presentation of BW, as we have come to know the traditional Aesopic fable. The second story replicates what we have in "The Lion and the Fox" from Artes Gráficas Cobas. The story has changed radically from its earliest versions. The old lion plays sick, so that the animals will bring him nice food. Different animals get different impressions of the lion's sickness; the clever fox hearing them peeks through the window and catches the lion cooking a meal for himself. The fox gives the lion a tongue-lashing. The third story replicates apparently what we have in "The Blacksmith and his Dog" from Artes Gráficas Cobas. As I wrote there, the dog leaves the blacksmith and goes through farmwork and circus work on the way to discovering that work is work. The fourth story brings together several Aesopic fables but changes them, as is noted in our "The Hen That Laid Golden Eggs" from Artes Gráficas Cobas. The farmer wants all his hens to lay two eggs daily. The text has him seeing a golden egg one day, while the illustration shows two! His reaction is to pamper this hen and feed her more so that he can get more eggs. She decides to teach him a lesson by laying ordinary white eggs. The farmer learns his lesson and apologizes to the hens. Here is one of the values of developing a collection. English versions of a Spanish publisher of Spanish fables have helped to understand four Czech presentations of fables!
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Slovart Print, Vydavatelstvi Junior
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