The Hare and the Tortoise and Other Fables: Aesop's fables retold by Alice Mills
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Mills, Alice
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2000
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First published (by whom?) in 1999. This book turns out to be far more extensive than I had thought. It has an unusual landscape format of 9 x 6. Each page has a square illustration of about 3½ on a side, with the text next to it. Many of the illustrations are seriously indebted to Walter Crane. Several of the fables and their illustrations are unusual. The Warhorse and the Miller concludes with the miller saying You should have thought more carefully before you chose to give up the army for the mill (27). The Leopard and the Fox has the fox finishing with this statement: An unspotted mind and heart are better than any spotted skin (44). The artist may not have understood on 52 how a clever cat might suspend itself by its hind legs from a peg as though she were dead. On 66, the fox falls into a river, not a well, and gets the goat to help him out. The Kingdom of the Lion is played out without irony, as the lion proclaims a universal peace and the little animals say that this is the day that they have been waiting for (77). The Tortoise and the Birds may conflate two fables (93) or perhaps two motifs from different fables. The tortoise offers a large reward for flying, and the eagle is not sure how she can crack his shell. In MM, the milkmaid does not shake her head; she trips on a stone (100). There is a T of C at the beginning and both an AI and advertisements at the back.
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Global Book Pub. Pty Ltd.
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