101 Best Indian Fables for Children
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Gupta, Stuti
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2019
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This is a print-upon-demand book offering original fables with simple black-and-white designs. At least, I am not aware of having encountered them before. A book offering original fables is surprising! 176 pages. 5" x 7¾". "The Monkey and the Looking-glass" (7) comes close to traditional fables. Once the beasts see themselves in the monkey's mirror, they urge him to break it. "Ignorance is bliss!" The next fable also has an Aesopic pattern. A fawn strikes up a friendship with a young tiger and wants to offer him something to eat, and so she asks her mother to provide it. "Child, how lucky it is that you have come away!" "The Hammer and the Anvil" (174) surprises me. It seems to say that having these two beat upon each other is good: "Competition is the secret of the world's success." At least that is what the furnace says.
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Srishti Publishers
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12655 (Access ID)