Rhymes & Fables
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1996
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This is one of three Torre books identical in format that I was able to get in a group from Scottsbooks. Might it mean that I now have all of Torre's fable books? Like the other Torre books I have found, it is a beautifully produced book, set by hand and bound by hand. This book has seventeen offerings on 114 pages. Each of the writings has at least one accompanying full-page colored illustration cut from wood, and these seem to me to be again the strength of the book. It is easy here to distinguish the fables from the rhymes, though all offerings here are in verse. Several fables are labeled as From Aesop's Fables: The Monkey & the Dolphin (1), The Fox & the Goat (7), The Hares & the Frogs (37, with a fine illustration), FS (68), and FK (80). FK seems not to get beyond the moment of discussion about the qualities wanted in any king. Two are described as adapted form La Fontaine's Fables MSA (91 and Death & the Woodman (98). The MSA version here is closer to other versions than La Fontaine's! It has a great illustration of the two yokels! Here the donkey, sick of all the changes, stands still until father and son carry him. There is one unlikely fable: clams ask a strolling fisherman not to let the gulls eat them, but to put them rather into a chowder. He does just that! My prize in this volume goes to a non-fable, A Fish Named 'Pesky' (44), including its two fine illustrations. An honorable mention goes to the silkscreen of the auk on the cliffs of Dover (77). A number of the sextets here seem to have the pattern xbybzb where there may be a rhyme in two or three of x, y, and z.
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The Inkwell Press
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6647 (Access ID)