Aesop's Tales 30
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Authors
Nishimoto, Keisuke
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1989
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This softbound book offers thirty fables with lively colored illustrations. A second dust jacket partly covers the first! Many illustrations look as though they are celluloid stills taken from moving pictures. At times the colors are at best curious (as in the orange-dominated inside view of the ant-house on 35), and at other times they are great. Then again there is a strange mix of monochrome along with polychrome. The Japanese back-cover shows the ass with a statue, but I cannot find that story inside the book! Among the best images are those for The Doctor and the Eye-Sick Woman (36); the bandages set the occasion for theft perfectly. Might some pictures be out of sequence within their stories? Among the best illustrations are the defeathered crow (57), the toothless and clawless lion (60), and the close-up of the ant on the foot of the hunter who is about to shoot the dove (133). The image helps stress the irony in GGE (69): for this hen, giving its owners a golden egg means making them into aggressive enemies! On 73, the grand-mother shoots a gun at the wolf who thought she would throw out the child! On 94, the boar whets his teeth by taking them out of his mouth!
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Shogakukan
Shōgakkan
Shōgakkan
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2541 (Access ID)