The Fallacious Book of Fables
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Lambert, Travis
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2017
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This paperback book of 88 pages, 8½" x 5½", offers ten stories that are closer to fables than I at first thought. While those I tested are not based on traditional fables, they have each the dynamic of a fable. Thus Little Red Herring distracts the wolf from eating her by mentioning a fictitious tea party of four other fatter children. She sends him off to help prepare the party and so escapes him. The book does present logical fallacies, like Red's "red herring" having nothing to do with the wolf's goal of eating Red. The same wolf appears in the last story to attack the houses of pigs. He is borrowing under the steel door of the third house, made of bricks. He has burrowed so energetically that he has created a pit, and the steel door falls and encloses him. The telling of this story involves begging the question. When the third pig asks the wolf what right he has to attack pigs' houses, the wolf responds that, if he did not attack, the next wolf would. The title-page includes some Greek and Latin in declaring a purpose of instructing and edifying the young. The book is fun!
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12880 (Access ID)