Aesop's Fables: The Hare and the Tortoise and Other Fables

Abstract

The endpapers for all four volumes in this set contain the same four designs, one for each book's title-story. This volume contains TH, TMCM, The Farmer's Daughter (MM), and FC. The hare plans to take a nap. TMCM at least seems to be closely patterned on Jacobs' telling. In the beginning of her reverie, the milkmaid steps around a ditch in the road. This medium-sized book slightly over 5 x 8 varies between smaller and full-page illustrations, perhaps done with acrylics. Perhaps the best of the images is the two-page spread of the milkmaid crying over her spilling milk (16-17).