Creighton University

This pamphlet of 24 pages offers excerpts from Shanti's 2011 "Aesop's Fables," designed by Rangoli.  Texts and illustrations match those there.  Each fable gets a single page, with a numbered T of C on the verso of the title-page.  Rangoli is not acknowledged here.  No date of publication is indicated in the pamphlet.  To judge from this copy and the copy I have of one other booklet in the collection, all six titles are identical.  As I wrote there, each page has a strong colored cartoon at its top, and each adds a moral.  I find it a good rendition of the fables with lively cartoons.  There are some curiosities here.  It is surprising to find a fable pitting the grasshopper, not the mosquito, against a lion (9).  Do grasshoppers ever bite?  I had not noticed before this title: "Field Rat and Town Rat" (16).  A fable about fishing may want to substitute "until" for "unless" in its moral "Keep on trying, unless you succeed" (19).  Our English would not say this title quite that way: "Result of a Stupidity" (22).  I find these stories and pictures well done.  This number in the series has a woodcutter, his axe, and a comely female deity on the cover.

This pamphlet of 24 pages offers excerpts from Shanti's 2011 "Aesop's Fables," designed by Rangoli.  Texts and illustrations match those there.  Each fable gets a single page, with a numbered T of C on the verso of the title-page.  Rangoli is not acknowledged here.  No date of publication is indicated in the pamphlet.  To judge from this copy and the copy I have of one other booklet in the collection, all six titles are identical.  As I wrote there, each page has a strong colored cartoon at its top, and each adds a moral.  I find it a good rendition of the fables with lively cartoons.  Here a wolf, and not a boar, is sharpening his teeth before the fight because there is no time once the fight starts (8).  On 14 there is a fine cartoon for TH: the rabbit smiles in his sleep.  The version of UP here has a wolf bringing the good news that there is no killing.  In this version the hen in the tree sees a lion coming (29).  I find these stories and pictures well done.