Author: BPI
Publisher: BPI Publishing
ISBN: 9351215075
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
AESOP'S FABLES (PB)
AESOP'S FABLES (PB)
Author: BPI
Publisher: BPI Publishing
ISBN: 9351215075
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
AESOP'S FABLES (PB)
Publisher: BPI Publishing
ISBN: 9351215075
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
AESOP'S FABLES (PB)
Illustrated Stories from Aesop
Author: Susanna Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781409598923
Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An enchantingly illustrated, cloth-bound gift edition of a collection of over thirty timeless fables from Aesop, including âe~The Hare and the Tortoiseâe(tm), âe~The Boy who Cried Wolfâe(tm) and âe~The Lion and the Mouseâe(tm).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781409598923
Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An enchantingly illustrated, cloth-bound gift edition of a collection of over thirty timeless fables from Aesop, including âe~The Hare and the Tortoiseâe(tm), âe~The Boy who Cried Wolfâe(tm) and âe~The Lion and the Mouseâe(tm).
Aesop’s Animals
Author: Jo Wimpenny
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472966937
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop's Fables are still passed on from parent to child, and are embedded in our collective consciousness. The morals we have learned from these tales continue to inform our judgements, but have the stories also informed how we regard their animal protagonists? If so, is there any truth behind the stereotypes? Are wolves deceptive villains? Are crows insightful geniuses? And could a tortoise really beat a hare in a race? In Aesop's Animals, zoologist Jo Wimpenny turns a critical eye to the fables to discover whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop's portrayal of the animal kingdom. She brings the tales into the twenty-first century, introducing the latest findings on some of the most fascinating branches of ethological research – the study of why animals do the things they do. In each chapter she interrogates a classic fable and a different topic – future planning, tool use, self-recognition, cooperation and deception – concluding with a verdict on the veracity of each fable's portrayal from a scientific perspective. By sifting fact from fiction in one of the most beloved texts of our culture, Aesop's Animals explores and challenges our preconceived notions about animals, the way they behave, and the roles we both play in our shared world.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472966937
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop's Fables are still passed on from parent to child, and are embedded in our collective consciousness. The morals we have learned from these tales continue to inform our judgements, but have the stories also informed how we regard their animal protagonists? If so, is there any truth behind the stereotypes? Are wolves deceptive villains? Are crows insightful geniuses? And could a tortoise really beat a hare in a race? In Aesop's Animals, zoologist Jo Wimpenny turns a critical eye to the fables to discover whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop's portrayal of the animal kingdom. She brings the tales into the twenty-first century, introducing the latest findings on some of the most fascinating branches of ethological research – the study of why animals do the things they do. In each chapter she interrogates a classic fable and a different topic – future planning, tool use, self-recognition, cooperation and deception – concluding with a verdict on the veracity of each fable's portrayal from a scientific perspective. By sifting fact from fiction in one of the most beloved texts of our culture, Aesop's Animals explores and challenges our preconceived notions about animals, the way they behave, and the roles we both play in our shared world.
Aesop's Fables
Author: Agnese Baruzzi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857078954
Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Retells seven of Aesop's classic fables, including "The Hare and the Tortoise," "The Fox and the Grapes," and "The Ant and the Grasshopper."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857078954
Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Retells seven of Aesop's classic fables, including "The Hare and the Tortoise," "The Fox and the Grapes," and "The Ant and the Grasshopper."
Aesopic Conversations
Author: Leslie Kurke
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400836565
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymous Life of Aesop and offers a different set of perspectives. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against the works of Greek high culture, allow us to reconstruct an ongoing conversation of "great" and "little" traditions spanning centuries. Evidence going back to the fifth century BCE suggests that Aesop participated in the practices of nonphilosophical wisdom (sophia) while challenging it from below, and Kurke traces Aesop's double relation to this wisdom tradition. She also looks at the hidden influence of Aesop in early Greek mimetic or narrative prose writings, focusing particularly on the Socratic dialogues of Plato and the Histories of Herodotus. Challenging conventional accounts of the invention of Greek prose and recognizing the problematic sociopolitics of humble prose fable, Kurke provides a new approach to the beginnings of prose narrative and what would ultimately become the novel. Delving into Aesop, his adventures, and his crafting of fables, Aesopic Conversations shows how this low, noncanonical figure was--unexpectedly--central to the construction of ancient Greek literature. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400836565
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymous Life of Aesop and offers a different set of perspectives. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against the works of Greek high culture, allow us to reconstruct an ongoing conversation of "great" and "little" traditions spanning centuries. Evidence going back to the fifth century BCE suggests that Aesop participated in the practices of nonphilosophical wisdom (sophia) while challenging it from below, and Kurke traces Aesop's double relation to this wisdom tradition. She also looks at the hidden influence of Aesop in early Greek mimetic or narrative prose writings, focusing particularly on the Socratic dialogues of Plato and the Histories of Herodotus. Challenging conventional accounts of the invention of Greek prose and recognizing the problematic sociopolitics of humble prose fable, Kurke provides a new approach to the beginnings of prose narrative and what would ultimately become the novel. Delving into Aesop, his adventures, and his crafting of fables, Aesopic Conversations shows how this low, noncanonical figure was--unexpectedly--central to the construction of ancient Greek literature. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Aesop's Fables, Retold by Elli Woollard
Author: Elli Woollard
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529055709
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
A beautiful gift edition of Aesop’s Fables featuring eight classic stories, charmingly retold in rhyming verse with stunning illustrations. Bringing together the incredible talents of award-winning illustrator and Booktrust Time to Read favourite, Marta Altés and author and poet, Elli Woollard, this unique collection of Aesop’s Fables is a fresh and funny take on an enduring classic. Richly illustrated throughout by Marta Altés, author of Little Monkey, this is perfect for new and younger readers and will delight children and adults alike. Meet the town mouse and his country cousin, discover what happens to the boy who cried wolf one too many times and find out just how the tortoise beat the boastful hare. A perfect companion title to Just So Stories, created by the same winning team. Stories include: Two Travellers and the Bear The Hare and the Tortoise The Boy who cried Wolf The Donkey in the Lion's Skin The Dog and his Reflection The Baboon and the Fox The Peacock and the Crane The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529055709
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
A beautiful gift edition of Aesop’s Fables featuring eight classic stories, charmingly retold in rhyming verse with stunning illustrations. Bringing together the incredible talents of award-winning illustrator and Booktrust Time to Read favourite, Marta Altés and author and poet, Elli Woollard, this unique collection of Aesop’s Fables is a fresh and funny take on an enduring classic. Richly illustrated throughout by Marta Altés, author of Little Monkey, this is perfect for new and younger readers and will delight children and adults alike. Meet the town mouse and his country cousin, discover what happens to the boy who cried wolf one too many times and find out just how the tortoise beat the boastful hare. A perfect companion title to Just So Stories, created by the same winning team. Stories include: Two Travellers and the Bear The Hare and the Tortoise The Boy who cried Wolf The Donkey in the Lion's Skin The Dog and his Reflection The Baboon and the Fox The Peacock and the Crane The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
The Storyteller's Sourcebook
Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The first edition provides descriptions of folktales and references to more than 700 published sources of folktales. The new edition covers folktales from 1983-1999. Both editions include thorough indexing by subject, motif, title, ethnic group and country of origin and a comprehensive bibliography.
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The first edition provides descriptions of folktales and references to more than 700 published sources of folktales. The new edition covers folktales from 1983-1999. Both editions include thorough indexing by subject, motif, title, ethnic group and country of origin and a comprehensive bibliography.
Æsop's fables
Author: Aesop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Aesop's Fables
Author: Aesop
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780877017806
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
An illustrated collection of fables selected from works published in Great Britain, Europe, and the United States during the past 150 years.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780877017806
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
An illustrated collection of fables selected from works published in Great Britain, Europe, and the United States during the past 150 years.
Elmer and Butterfly
Author: David McKee
Publisher: Andersen Press USA
ISBN: 1467779482
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
One day, as Elmer is strolling through the jungle, he hears a cry for help. A butterfly has been trapped in a hole by a fallen branch. Elmer rushes to the rescue and frees her with ease. In return, she promises to help Elmer should he ever need it. But just how can a butterfly ever help an elephant?
Publisher: Andersen Press USA
ISBN: 1467779482
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
One day, as Elmer is strolling through the jungle, he hears a cry for help. A butterfly has been trapped in a hole by a fallen branch. Elmer rushes to the rescue and frees her with ease. In return, she promises to help Elmer should he ever need it. But just how can a butterfly ever help an elephant?