Twelve Tales from Aesop: Retold and Illustrated (English and German Edition)
by Eric Carle
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Retells 12 familiar Aesop's fables including "The Rabbit and the Turtle," "The Lion and the Mouse," and "The Wolf and the Lamb."Tags
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The best thing about it is that some of the tales were unfamiliar to me. I love Carle's work, of course, but this just felt dissonant to me... his style isn't what I think of when I think Aesop. The retellings were fine, objectively, but somehow seemed a little too simplified to suit me. And besides, there are so many other good editions of Aesop, choose one of them instead.
This book is a collection of 12 of Aesop’s fables retold and illustrated by Eric Carle. Each story has a different lesson that can be learned from reading it. Most of the fables contain two animals and there is usually a conflict between them. When Carle retold Aesop’s fables, he added a few things to each story without changing the major theme or message of the story. In a couple of the stories, the lesson that can be learned is to not always be so trusting of others. Aesop’s fables are retold in a way that is easy to understand while still keeping with the tradition of sharing fables.
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Eric Carle is an award-winning, children's picture book author and illustrator whose most recognized work is The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book. Carle was born to German parents in 1929 in Syracuse, New York. The family returned to Germany in 1935, moving to a suburb of Stuttgart. Carle disliked high school, quitting at the age of 16 before show more graduation. He was admitted as the youngest student to the Akademie der bildenden Kunste, an art school. After finishing at the Akademie, he worked as a poster designer for the U.S. Information Center in Germany until 1952, when he moved back to New York City. He was a graphic designer at the New York Times and later worked as an art director at L.W. Frohlich & Co. In 1963, Bill Martin, Jr. saw a poster of a red lobster that Carle had designed and asked him to illustrate Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, thus launching his freelance career. Among his many children's books are Dream Snow, Hello, Red Fox, The Very Clumsy Click Beetle, and Pancakes, Pancakes! His title The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse made Publisher's Weekly Best Seller List for 2011. His title Brown Bear Brown Bear What to You See? made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. In 2015 he made The New Zealand Best Seller List with Love from the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Eric Carle, beloved children's book author and illustrator, died on May 23, 2021. He was 91. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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