Aesop's Fables 1 (Chinese)
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1998
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Finding this book was one of the happy little miracles I have experienced in developing this collection. On a visit to South Pasadena, I stopped at a neighborhood used book shop that I remembered from a previous visit. The attendant said that she unfortunately had no fables. I did find a small LaFontaine illustrated by Girardet, but it was too expensive for a book of which I already have multiple editions. I figured that I had exhausted my possibilities, but I checked foreign language. As I came to the end of the last shelf, I noticed two Asian books and started to page through. The first story is WSC, and the second FG. I soon found Aesop's picture on the last page. I was holding a needle found in a haystack! Tartarotti's illustrations are creative and lively, right from the DS illustration on the title page. This illustration puts the dog at the crest of an arching bridge over a long canal. The reflection of the meat is crystal clear. A T of C at the front includes six images along with twenty-five titles presented on some 67 pages. The pagination seems to begin with the front cover! Most fables take two or three pages. Text is placed at the center of each page, with a row of illustrations above and one below. The horse that invites the man onto his back does not even get to attack the stag that first irritated him (23)! One cartoon on 47 depicts graphically how a lion-made statue would depict a struggle between a man and a lion. The illustrations are so simple and pointed that one does not need to be able to read the text. The cover shows many of the book's characters standing at a low farm wall. A great find!
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