Aesop's Fables
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Lawrence, Caroline
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2022
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I have known Ingpen from several volumes of folk tales and fables published in the 80's and 90's. Caroline Lawrence is new to me. I notice here immediately her dedication of this book to "Laura Gibbs, a passionate and generous expert on Aesop's fables." How true! Lawrence's beginning "Note" advises "I thought it would be fun to add bits from an ancient biography of Aesop to make all the little fables into a kind of story." I would say that her creative effort succeeds. Maybe the lack of a T of C aids that effort. I started reading at the beginning, with "The Orator and the Fable" (8) and kept right on going for many pages. One gets a sense of Aesop's life along with the fables. The versions are well crafted. Ingpen's artistry includes about one partial-page illustration per page, but there are also significant full-page and two-page illustrations, like "Aesop for Sale" (68); SW (78-79); and CP (102-3). Ingpen's style is distinctly non-photographic; subjects are presented in a slightly diffused fashion. The human figures are, for me, the most engaging. I applaud this book; it is worthy of Laura Gibbs!
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Welbeck Editions
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