Aesop's Forgotten Fables
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Aesop
Waters, Fiona
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2013
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I got this lovely book at a much reduced rate by ordering it early on Amazon. The combination of Waters and Testa remains strong, as it did in their 2010 Aesop's Fables. The flyleaf proclaims This stunning collection revitalises forty of Aesop's lesser-known fables, which have been rewritten by the talented anthologist, Fiona Waters, and sumptuously illustrated by renowned artist, Fulvio Testa. Yes! Every fable but the last follows the same format: a left-hand page offers a title, a smaller image, a text, and a moral. The right-hand page is completely covered with a second illustration. The last fable spills over onto third and fourth pages with yet another illustration on the last page. Waters makes the best sense I have seen of The Fisherman and his Music (18). Testa's magic is again at work in the peaceful smile of the sleeping dog on 27 while his blacksmith master casts an unapproving eye on him. In this version of The Boy Bathing, the man is still lecturing on the bank and the boy is still struggling in the water as the fable ends (34). Both the telling and the picture are fine in SS (50); this peddler goes directly back to market twice after the ass's first and second slips, and, after the third slip set off home with a quietly satisfied smile on his face. Both picture and moral are superb for The Travellers and the Plane Tree: A freely given service is often met with ingratitude (62). The Leopard and the Fox (82) makes a fine cover picture, repeated on the dust-jacket.
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Andersen Press
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10040 (Access ID)