Aesop's Fables for Little Children
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Davidson, Susanna
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2020
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Might this be our first book printed in the UAE? As the beginning T of C shows, there are six stories here: TH; LM; FC; GA; FS; and TMCM. Stories are told and illustrated expansively here. TH takes 26 pages! Joven uses a stylized, colorful approach to the cartoon illustrations. Morals are given on each title-page. Davidson takes a fresh approach to each fable and finds pleasant alternatives to traditional phases. The little mouse gets lost on the way home and climbs a hill to get a better view. The mouse's frightened squeak wakes the lion up. Even her mice friends laugh at her promise to save the lion back. At the end of FC, crow goes off and finds a mouse with a piece of cheese and tells how much he would love to hear the mouse talk…. GA's moral is "Prepare for winter before it comes." The ant finds the freezing grasshopper and brings him into her home. He promises to work next summer, and she offers to sing! FS features balancing pairs of pages showing the frustrated efforts of first guest stork and then guest fox to eat what is offered. At the end, fox arrives with a gift to invite stork to his house for lunch. Town Mouse plays with his band, "Town Mouse and the Rat-a-tat-tats." He arrives in the country to step in a cow splat and then to come face to face with a cow. Not an interrupted feast but loud music, nighttime traffic noise, and after-effects of blue cheese convince the Country Mouse to head home. "We're each better in our own homes," he says as he departs.
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