Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780007141982
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Book Description
With its unique blend of hilarious rhyme, jaunty rhythm and wacky illustrations, this delightful book combines three of Dr. Seuss's most charming fables, each one teaching us a salient lesson in coping with life's problems. The ever popular Lorax tells the tale of the wicked Once-ler who devastates a beautiful paradise by cutting down all the Truffula Trees, just so he can knit thneeds that noboby needs. The message is loud and clear that we should take better care of our environment. Learning to face up to life's problems -- rather than trying to run away from them -- is the message amusingly told in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, and Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? reminds us all that there is always someone, somewhere, worse off than ourselves.
Author: Linda K. Garrity
Publisher: Good Year Books
ISBN: 9780673463173
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!
Author: Ann Tatlock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781624690563
Category : Fables
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Step into a world of wonder and learning in these enduring fables of ancient Greece. You'll come face to face with the wrath of the Olympian gods. You'll meet unforgettable characters with all-too-human shortcomings, including the conceited Narcissus, the greedy King Midas, and the disobedient Icarus. Come, listen and learn as their choices lead to some surprising outcomes.
Author: Aesop
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853261282
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Author: Horst Dölvers
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780874135848
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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This study examines more than one hundred fables in prose and verse, most of them original in content, some highly original in form. Author Horst Dolvers refutes the assumption that the fable declined in popularity after 1800 and the days of La Fontaine, Swift, Gay, and Lessing. Most of the texts studied in this book are taken from Victoria collections and poetry anthologies, and are presumably unknown. An extensive documentation presents verse fables according to the different functions they served - in humor, satire, and education, religious and philosophical speculation, and as drawing-room entertainment full of erotic innuendo. Mere stock-taking is not this book's intent, however. Its second part focuses on three Victorian books, applying semiotics (including theories of discourse). A review essay of Lord Lytton's Fables in Song (1874) by Robert Louis Stevenson contains perceptive remarks on the "post-Darwinian fable," a newly developing variant turning away from "old stories of wise animals or foolish men" to confront "truths that are a matter of bitter concern." Lytton's reveries deserve rediscovery as narratives that skillfully manipulate their readers by a hierachical ordering of discourses - nudging them into ideological positions that, to many readers, must have appeared commonsensical. At the same time, they tend to sap the complacencies of common sense. A picture book by Walter Crane, an Aesop in limericks (1887), shows the illustrator's art as no less Houdinian. Finally, Anna Sewell's children's classic Black Beauty, if simple, should be read as anything but plain; its speaking silences make the reader feel that man and beast are divided rather than united by their ability to communicate. The horses, shown as capable of speaking like humans, do not share man's multiplicity of discourses - nor consequently, the duplicity resulting from their use.
Author: Aesop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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One hundred twenty-six best-loved fables of Aesop.
Author: Om Books Editorial Team
Publisher: Om Books International
ISBN: 9384119687
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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After a long search, a tired crow finally finds a water pitcher, but how will he drink the water lying at the bottom of the pitcher? Read more to find out!
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905598106
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Author: Om Books Editorial Team
Publisher: Om Books International
ISBN: 9384119717
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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One day, a villager finds that his goose lays golden eggs, but loses the goose forever due to his greed. Read more to find out!
Author: Suzanne I. Barchers
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
ISBN: 1563085534
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Book Description
A collection of theater scripts based on traditional fables from around the world and grouped according to reading levels.
