Walter Crane, Aesop, "The Baby's Own Aesop"
Walter Crane, Aesop, "The Baby's Own Aesop"
Publisher: CreateSpace | 2011 | ISBN: 146350179X | English | EPUB+MP3 | 52 pages | 37.8 Mb
Publisher: CreateSpace | 2011 | ISBN: 146350179X | English | EPUB+MP3 | 52 pages | 37.8 Mb
This is a very colorful graphic reprint of the Classic Fable by Aesop and Walter Crane as the famous illustrator. Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. His fables are some of the most well known in the world. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" derives), The Tortoise and the Hare, The North Wind and the Sun, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Ant and the Grasshopper are well-known throughout the world. Apollonius of Tyana, a 1st century CE philosopher, is recorded as having said about Aesop: … like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events. (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V:14) Walter Crane (1845-1915) was one of the earliest contributors to children's literature and one of the most influential illustrators in the development of children's color picture books. Crane began working for Edmund Evans in 1864 producing bright, colorful children's books which revolutionized the type of children's books available. This wonderfully decorated book 'The Baby's Own Aesop', is collection of rhyming Aesop's Fables about animals originally published in 1887. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
Walter Crane, Aesop, "The Baby's Own Aesop"
Walter Crane, Aesop, "The Baby's Own Aesop"
