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Vetaplast Oi Mythoi tou Aisopou

2000 Oi Mythoi Tou Aisopou: Alepou kai Koraki. Makes Konstantelakes. Paperbound. Athens: Ekdoseis Vetaplast. AU $6 from Greek Toys and Books, Flinders Pk, South Australia, May, '07.

This is an oversized pamphlet (about 8" x 11") containing 16 pages. The story is FC. To tell from the art, it is told in traditional fashion. The art is simple. Those who presume that the fox is standing right underneath the crow should look at the illustration on 13. The last page seems to give some background on Aesop. This set seems to contain four, and then there are two other similar booklets. I have the four, but of the added pair, I have "The Father's Dilemma" but am missing "The Woodchopper and Hermes."

2000 Oi Mythoi Tou Aisopou: Liontari kai Pontiki. Makes Konstantelakes. Paperbound. Athens: Ekdoseis Vetaplast. AU $6 from Greek Toys and Books, Flinders Pk, South Australia, May, '07.

This is an oversized pamphlet (about 8" x 11") containing 16 pages. The story is LM. To tell from the art, it is told in traditional fashion. The art is simple. The best images are those, I believe, which have the lion being disturbed and then the lion enclosed in the net. It strikes me that drawing lions is difficult; this lion's face seems to change from panel to panel. The last lion image may not be very lion-like. The last page seems to give some background on Aesop. This set seems to contain four, and then there are two other similar booklets. I have the four, but of the added pair, I have "The Father's Dilemma" but am missing "The Woodchopper and Hermes."

2000 Oi Mythoi Tou Aisopou: Tzitziki kai Mermegki. Makes Konstantelakes. Paperbound. Athens: Oi Mythoi Tou Aisopou: Ekdoseis Vetaplast. AU $6 from Greek Toys and Books, Flinders Pk, South Australia, May, '07.

This is an oversized pamphlet (about 8" x 11") containing 16 pages. The story is GA. To tell from the art, it is told in traditional fashion. The art is simple. The best images are those, I believe, which display the ants' underground colony feverishly busy during summer and closed up during the cooler months. True to Greece, winter here does not seem to involve snow. The last page seems to give some background on Aesop. This set seems to contain four, and then there are two other similar booklets. I have the four, but of the added pair, I have "The Father's Dilemma" but am missing "The Woodchopper and Hermes."

2000 Oi Mythoi Tou Aisopou: Kabouras kai Alepou. Makes Konstantelakes. Paperbound. Athens: Oi Mythoi Tou Aisopou: Ekdoseis Vetaplast. AU $6 from Greek Toys and Books, Flinders Pk, South Australia, May, '07.

This is an oversized pamphlet (about 8" x 11") containing 16 pages. The story is "The Crab and the Fox."The story is apparently Perry #116. When a crab came up from the sea and crawled about on the shore he was seized upon by an unusually hungry fox; which caused him to reflect that this was what he deserved for his folly in leaving his native element and trying to live on the land. The art is simple. If I understand this version's presentation of the story, the key image might be the third to last: a surprised crab runs into a fox on the hillside. The last page seems to give some background on Aesop. This set seems to contain four, and then there are two other similar booklets. I have the four, but of the added pair, I have "The Father's Dilemma" but am missing "The Woodchopper and Hermes."

2000 Oi Mythoi Tou Aisopou: To Dilema tou Patera. Makes Konstantelakes. Paperbound. Athens: Oi Mythoi Tou Aisopou: Ekdoseis Vetaplast. AU $6 from Greek Toys and Books, Flinders Pk, South Australia, May, '07.

This is an oversized pamphlet (about 8" x 11") containing 16 pages. In style it differs from the other four in the series. It does not have two pictures giving the two main characters on its title-page and does not have a final page on Aesop and fable. The integration of picture and text is different; for example, there are no borders on the pictures. The typeface seems different. The story here is Perry #94, "The Father and His Two Daughters." A man who had two daughters gave one of them in marriage to a gardener and the other to a potter. On a visit to the gardener's wife he inquired how she and her husband were getting along, and his daughter told him that they were comfortable and had all they needed, except that just now they were praying for rainy weather to make the vegetables grow. After that the father visited the other daughter, the potter's wife, and made similar inquiries of her. She said that everything was all right with them so far, but they were earnestly praying that the sunny weather would continue so that their pottery would be baked. On hearing this her father said, "If you want fair weather, and your sister wants rainy weather, to which of your respective prayers shall I join my own?" The art, though different in style from the art in the other four booklets of the series, is simple. If I understand this version's presentation of the story, the key image might be the last: a perplexed father wonders what prayer he should make. I cannot say that I am clear on what the two occupations are here, perhaps wine-growing and offering entertainment and food at an outdoor restaurant? There is another booklet apparently similar in style to this one, which I do not have: "The Woodchopper and Hermes."

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