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The Rooster and the Fox: A Fable from Aesop Retold & Illustrated by Helen Ward
No full textThis is a sideways (landscape) book of considerable artistic appeal, like The Hare and the Tortoise from the same publisher in 1998. The color work is excellent. Ward is faithful to Chaucer. I see two possible exceptions. First, has Chanticleer never seen a fox before? A second exception may consist in the adding of a forest, at the edge of which all the pursuing animals stop. The liveliest images here come when the animals pursue the fox with Chanticleer in his mouth. The first of these is particularly attractive. A special feature of this book comes at the end when each of the species represented here is identified. There is a black (remainder?) mark on the bottom of the book. Well done again!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)First editionApparent first printingRetold by Helen War
The King of the Birds
No full textI have enjoyed several fable books by Helen Ward, and this earlier creation certainly fits the pattern. Though the story is identified only as adapted from a traditional tale, it is Aesop's old story of the wren who bests the eagle by flying higher than the eagle does in a test of supremacy (Perry #434). Of course, the wren does it by flying hidden in the eagle's back until the eagle reaches his zenith. Ward's particular contributions to this tale are, I believe, two. First, she develops the fable nicely, for example listing opinions until there were as many answers as there were birds. Secondly, she has a section at the back in which she identifies each of the many species of birds depicted in the illustrations. This is another classy product from Ward!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)Written & Illustrated by Helen War
The Hare and the Tortoise: A Fable from Aesop Retold & Illustrated by Helen Ward
No full textThis is a sideways (landscape) book of considerable artistic appeal. The color work is excellent. A new emphasis in this work lies on all the other animals involved. The inciting incident happens when the careless hare trips over the tortoise and tumbles into a thorny bush. The noise attracts a crowd. The hare insults the tortoise, who says nothing in return except to challenge him to a race. It is when the hare is leaping from stone to stone across the river that he finds the tortoise rowing across more easily. Next the hare finds himself moving through a forest (of larger animals' legs) that leaves him scratched and tired when he reaches its other side. So he decides to take a nap. The hare awakens, checks for the tortoise (who is not in sight), and takes time for a long lunch. The hare crosses the finish line too late but is running too fast to stop and falls into an even thornier bush than before. But this time he said nothing. The last few pages are a key to the various animals pictured along the way. Well done!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)First editionApparent first printingRetold by Helen War
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: An Aesop Fable Retold & Illustrated
No full textHelen Ward is giving herself generously to fables! Unwitting Wisdom, King of the Birds, The Rooster and the Fox, and The Hare and the Tortoise precede this book. Ward sets the story at Christmas time in New York in the 1930's. She develops the story nicely, first by dwelling on the country mouse's love of the seasons in the country. Next she lets the city mouse demonstrate what she aptly suggests: he is a mouse with a lot to say. The illustrations are lavish two-page spreads replete with detail. My favorite shows a fenced elevator in the city going up beyond our eye level with the mouse on it behind the person transporting a Christmas tree. What happens in the city is not altogether clear to me. Eventually a pug dog appears. Even as he is running, the country mouse thinks back to his beloved home. He ends up just a country mouse dreaming of spring. A final image shows a mouse cleverly both inside and outside a round of blue cheese. Originally published in England in 2011. This is a rare book in present days that has a dust-jacket distinct from the book's cover. The latter is red cloth, the former a gold-background image of two mice among leaves and flowers. An oval sticker on the front cover proclaims We believe in picture books! This book aptly rewards that belief.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)First printingRetold & Illustrated by Helen War
La Sagesse des bêtes
No full textThis book was adapted from the British version of Helen Ward's Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables. It was also published, apparently at the same time, by Chronicle Books in the USA: that book I have and have already reviewed. The book's lovely dedication continues in this French version: To Aesop and all tellers of moral tales who, despite a monumentally ineffective history, still gently try to point the human race in a better direction. The book seems to follow the English version, and so I will repeat some of my comments from that version. (However, I need to compare this with the English version: some visual effects with the text may have been lost in this French version.) The text versions make the point of the fables abundantly clear, as when the fox not only leaps for the grapes but tries to climb the tree around which the vine is curled, tries to prod the grapes with a cane, and throws and kicks sticks and stones at the vine. When he leaves, he mutters to himself that they were undoubtedly the nastiest, most horrid, disgusting, revolting, inedible, indigestible and very probably the sourest grapes he had ever had the pleasure of not eating! Ward illustrates every page, but the key illustrations are those which accompany the title and a short description on a lavish two-page spread. (The text then generally follows on a more modest two-page spread). The prizes for the grandest illustrations may go to the dressed-up jackdaw and the fox sniffing among the stork's beautiful Greek urns.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)Language note: FrenchOriginal language: engTexte et Illustrations: Helen Ward; Adaption Française de Françoise Ros
Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables
No full textI need to be more careful when buying foreign duplicates of books I have from American publishers. This lovely book cost less than 26! This edition by The Five Mile Press in Australia was printed in the same place as the USA edition from Chronicle Books. As far as I can tell, only the cover and dust-jacket are different. Let me repeat remarks made on that edition. This book has a lovely dedication: To Aesop and all tellers of moral tales who, despite a monumentally ineffective history, still gently try to point the human race in a better direction. I am not sure that I understand the characterization of fables' wisdom as unwitting in the title. Perhaps Ward is pointing to the fact, underscored in her introduction, that the animals (all twelve tales here feature animal actors) are all acting out their own parts, uncomprehending, in the great game of life. She quotes Chesterton: In Aesop's fables . . . the animals' reactions are always predictable. They have no choice; they cannot be anything but themselves. The text versions make the point of the fables abundantly clear, as when the fox not only leaps for the grapes but tries to climb the tree around which the vine is curled, tries to prod the grapes with a cane, and throws and kicks sticks and stones at the vine. When he leaves, he mutters to himself that they were undoubtedly the nastiest, most horrid, disgusting, revolting, inedible, indigestible and very probably the sourest grapes he had ever had the pleasure of not eating! Ward illustrates every page, but the key illustrations are those which accompany the title and a short description on a lavish two-page spread. (The text then generally follows on a more modest two-page spread). The prizes for the grandest illustrations may go to the dressed-up jackdaw and the fox sniffing among the stork's beautiful Greek urns. A special prize goes to the description after the title of DS; it has a mirror-image just below it, on a line with the reflection of the dog in the water on the facing page. The last line of the story of the tortoise who begged the eagle to teach him to fly sinks down the page the way the released tortoise does. Does it make sense that the shepherd, as it seems, does not discover that the wolf in sheep's clothing is a wolf even while eating him?This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)Retold & Illustrated by Helen War
[After successfully disposing of Mal Colston and Warwick Parer, Labor Senator Robert Ray and Senator John Faulkner begin their campaign against Liberal Senator, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Helen Coonan] 2002 [picture] /
No full textCondition: Good.; Title devised by cataloguer.; Inscriptions: signed "O'Neill" - l.r.corner. "18 x 20 - SMH - news review - Alan Ramsey column" - in pencil l.c. "SMH 22-11-02 for Sat 23-11-02" - in pencil l.r.; Part of: Ward O'Neill collection.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3585609
[The resignation of Carmen Lawrence from Labor's shadow cabinet takes media attention away from Liberal Senator Helen Coonan and her husband, retired NSW Supreme Court Judge Andrew Rogers, who were under attack for their careless management of family tax affairs] [picture] /
No full textCondition: Good.; Title devised by cataloguer.; Inscriptions: signed "O'Neill"--In pencil l.r. corner. "18 x 20 News Review Alan Ramsey column"--In pencil l.c. "SMH 6-12-02 for Sat 7-12-02"--In pencil l.r.; Part of: Ward O'Neill collection.; Also available in an electronic version vn3583517
Ginny Ward and Helen Lawler
No full textA photograph of Ginny Ward (Right) and Helen Lawler (Left) in swimming suits by a swimming pool, 1976. The pool can be seen behind them. Both Ginny and Helen were part of the Springfield College Women's Swimming and Diving team
Helen Ward at the North Rim Inn
No full textHelen Ward, UPC employee from Parowan, on back steps at the North Rim Inn
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