Through the Mirror: Tales from Childhood
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Wilson, Gregory Warren
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2013
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This book of 8 + 21 pages gets more engaging as I have been digging into it. My digging was occasioned by a question: Where was it published? Though I still do not have an answer, searching led to the revelation that the five fables here are lyrics to music first performed in September, 2013, and available on Apple Music. I have ordered the album through Amazon. There is a sort of interior title here: "Five Fables: Based on Aesop." The first fable plays out in traditional fashion, except that this fox first tells he crow that the cheese is too large for his beak and that the fox could chew it better. Unsuccessful, the fox turns to flattery. However, there is a major shift after the usual fable. The crow thinks: What would I rather have? A piece of cheese or the freedom to sing. Sing she does, and the world reverberates with her song. Meanwhile, the fox slinks off, "licking his greasy lips in silence." Touché! "The Frog and the Ass" is new and goes delightfully in a direction we readers of fable might predict. TH, like FC, takes a different direction after the usual fable. The hare in one of this fable's illustrations sports a red eye. I will leave it to the reader of this report to image how things go in "The Mouse, the Bull and the Flea." GA goes in a direction that La Fontaine would applaud. The grasshopper gets the ant dancing in January. Soon the ant is pleading with the grasshopper to play more and faster -- and the grasshopper falls and dies. T of C at the front. 5¾" x 8¼".
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Raphael Press
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13132 (Access ID)