Favorite Children's Stories from China and Tibet.
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Hume, Lotta Carswell
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1962
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A book of good contemporary popular Oriental art. Nineteen stories with over ninety illustrations, including twelve full-page illustrations in color in classic Chinese brush style. All of the colored pictures of tigers are particularly well done. Enjoy the excellent human faces on 51. The first of the stories, Soo Tan the Tiger and the Little Green Frog (9), is especially witty. A Chinese Cinderella (15) has a surprise epilogue. In the next story, the frog outwits the tiger by saying that he can exist on his own saliva (26). The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey (39) is common, but this version has an unusual twist: several monkey-hearts will be necessary. Closest to Aesop: A Hungry Wolf (55). Some stories have etiological elements: how, for example, did the deer get such a short stub of a tail (109)? The Little Hare's Clever Trick (115) is the common Kalila and Dimna story about fooling the lion, except that here there is no general contract with the lion and the hare himself is not a part of the reflection in the pool.
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Charles E. Tuttle Company
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1677 (Access ID)