基本信息·出版社：Kingfisher Books Ltd ·页码：80 页 ·出版日期：2005年09月 ·ISBN：0753411830 ·条形码：9780753411834 ·装帧：精装 ·正文语种： ...
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基本信息·出版社：Kingfisher Books Ltd
·页码：80 页
·出版日期：2005年09月
·ISBN：0753411830
·条形码：9780753411834
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：伊索寓言
内容简介 Have you heard the story of the tortoise and the hare? Aesop's Fables is a collection of eight entertaining fables, retold with a difference. Saviour Pirotta's clever, imaginative reworkings of these classic tales bring ancient Greece and the character of Aesop, the freedslave-turned-master-storyteller, vividly to life. Aesop himself tells the reader all about his life as a slave and as a storyteller, and explains the events that inspired his best-loved tales. These fables, gloriously illustrated by Richard Johnson, remain just as relevant today as they were hundreds of years ago.
编辑推荐 Craig Reem in THE INLAND EMPIRE FAMILY MAGAZINE, April 2006 Masterful introductions..illustrator Richard Johnson will keep the children transfixed while mom or dad eagerly read each story.
Alida Allison, NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, January 2006 It is good to see creative new editions of Aesop's Fables like this...well told, well illustrated.
专业书评 From School Library Journal Grade 1-5–Each of these eight fables is presented in a two-part format. The first part consists of a wordy introduction in which Aesop explains the meaning and possible context of the tale and relates it to his own life as a freed Athenian slave. Several of the selections, such as The Frogs That Wanted a King and The Jay and the Peacocks, are not often anthologized. Each telling contains descriptions of the setting, extensive dialogue, and rounded-out motivation. Unfortunately, the resulting long-windedness violates the pithiness of the genre. The Lion and the Mouse comes in at over eight pages. The preface makes clear what advice the ensuing selection will impart; the final paragraph of the narrative emphasizes the upcoming lesson, and a neatly framed moral is appended. This triple treatment leaves nothing to chance or children's ability to interpret meaning. However, Johnson's richly toned paintings in a pleasing variety of shapes grace the pages with lively animal and human activity. Three times as many fables in a quarter of the words appear in Verónica Uribe's
Little Book of Fables (Groundwood, 2004), while Helen Ward's grand retelling of a dozen tales in
Unwitting Wisdom (Chronicle, 2004) features more subtly designed illustrations that embellish the stories' content.
–Susan Hepler, Burgundy Farm Country Day School, Alexandria, VA Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
