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Seven Blind Mice
No full textI enjoy anything that Ed Young does. This large 10x 11 paperback book is no exception. Here he starts with an all-black background and then adds elements in cut-out paper and other materials. Seven differently-colored mice, marked as blind by their blank white eyes, find a strange Something by their pond. Each day one mouse goes to the something and brings back a report, and no one believes the reporter. Their reports are, respectively, that it is a pillar, snake, spear, cliff, fan, and rope. On Sunday, White Mouse goes to the pond. She runs up one side and down the other and then across the top from end to end. She repeats all the specific similarities but adds altogether the Something is . . . an elephant. The others try her method and concur. The Mouse Moral: Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole. This book won a 1993 Caldecott Honor Award, as the back cover declares. The publication information also indicates a Scholastic first printing date of 1993, despite the copyright of 1992.Ed Young
7 Blinde Mäuse
No full textThis book replicates in German Seven Blind Mice, which was first published in English by Philomel Books: Putnam & Grosset. I have the 1993 edition by Scholastic. It seems to have first appeared in German as a 1995 copyright of Altberliner Verlag with a new copyright in 2004 for Altberliner Verlag in der Baumhaus Buchverlag. Let me update some of my remarks from the English version. I enjoy anything that Ed Young does. Here he starts with an all-black background and then adds elements in cut-out paper and other materials. Seven differently-colored mice, marked as blind by their blank white eyes, find etwas Seltsames in der Nähe ihres Teiches. Each day a different mouse goes to the something near the pond and brings back a report, and no one believes the reporter. Their reports are, respectively, that it is a pillar, snake, spear, cliff, fan, and rope. On Sunday, White Mouse goes to the something at the pond. She runs up one side and down the other and then across the top from end to end. She repeats all the specific similarities but adds alles in Allem ist es . . . ein Elefant. The others try her method and concur. Perhaps the best illustration of all, I see now, has various mice standing on or at the various parts of the animal that they first encountered. Die Mäuse-Moral: Wissen in Teilen macht eine schöne Geschichte, aber Weisheit entsteht, wenn wir das Ganze sehen. This book won a 1993 Caldecott Honor Award. This German hardbound edition is very nicely produced.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: GermanOriginal language: engEd Young?; Aus dem Englischen von Katrin Schul
Aladdin Picture Books
No full textSee my comments on the hardbound version published by Simon & Schuster in 1995. This edition adds Caldecott Medalist underneath Ed Young's name on the cover. The back cover is no longer just the donkey's tail, but rather a detail of the scene in which the grandfather and boy are admonished while on the donkey's back, together with the obligatory commendations from critics.First editionApparent first printingEd Youn
Mouse Match: A Chinese Folktale
No full textOne finds here both an excellent telling and an excellent presentation of this age-old tale of finding the greatest groom for the mouse maiden. The father goes, respectively, to sun, cloud, wind, and mountain before the latter tells him that the mice who dig in him are greater than he is. A great touch occurs when the father comes home to tell his wife what he has learned: And their daughter cheered. Ed Young's medium here is collage, with pastel and watercolor on a variety of papers. The beautiful collages are on stiff cardboard pages. Each illustration continues onto the next accordioned page, and on the back of the whole fold-out is the Chinese story told with traditional characters in white on black. There are finally two straw tassels to tie the book shut. Lovely!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: Bilingual: English/ChineseOriginal language: chiFirst editionApparent first printingEd Youn
The Other Bone
No full textThis book has two great claims to fame. First, it is done entirely without text. Secondly, it has Ed Young's delightful wit. The artist's skill in observing and his sense of fun have him including phases of the story often left out or done quickly. Thus we start with the dog sleeping and dreaming. In his dreams he goes wild with a bone. He wakes up to scratch…and sniff. His sniffing leads him to a garbage can, the contents of which he strews about as he finds the bone of which he had had a whiff. After running like crazy, he slows down as he sees something in the water. One of Young's best images has the dog growling fiercely as the bone flies from his mouth. In a human rather than doggy gesture, he stands back in amazement as the bone sinks through the water. Another of Young's best moments comes in the underwater view of the dog's plunge. After the unsuccessful dive, there is the obligatory shake-off of the water. The last image shows the bone resting at the bottom of the river. Do not miss the nice design on the cover that both shows a dog and spells Young. This book is a treasure. It took me some time to learn of it and then longer to find it.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)First editionApparent first printingNon
The Lion and the Mouse.
No full textDelightful single-frame pictures. I would love to use one or two of them if I get a chance to present the story. This book presents a different moral from most for this fable: a change in circumstance makes the strong weak and vice versa.This is a hardbound book (hard cover
Wie die Maus den Loewen rettete
No full textVery well done, with beautiful detailed illustrations. A good example of contemporary work with a single fable (and in another language).This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: GermanOriginal language: en
Sandcastle Books
No full textAn excellent presentation of a good Jatakas tale about the rabbit's fear that the earth is breaking up. Both the storytelling and the illustration are first rate. Young's two-page spread of a single lion's paw near the middle of the book is excellent, as is the lion's face spread over the next pair of pages. After that middle point, watch the great presentation of rabbits, e.g., embracing in fright over the lion's roar. The original tree is identified by the rabbit as an apple tree only after the lion has halted the stampede with his roar. A great example of how the best of a tradition can be well presented with the best of contemporary technology.Rafe Marti
Benn Book Collection
No full textHere is yet another copy of the 1980 reprinting of the 1979 original. Whereas, though, that 1980 copy has a flat-textured cover, gold coloring for The Lion in the title, and several lines of bibliographical information on the back cover, this copy has a white cloth cover with a perceptible weave in the cloth, brown lettering for The Lion, and a back cover blank except for the picture of the mouse snuggling in the lion's tail. As I wrote there, I do not find much difference from the 1979 original publication.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Second printin
Esel Hin, Esel Her
No full textHere is the German version of the 1995 “Donkey Trouble” by Simon and Schuster. This was one of those rewarding finds for getting on the ground behind a table and sorting through a shelf of books. It was the last thing I found in Berlin. The sequence of illustrations is the same as in the original. “Ein gutter schlichter Mann” and his grandson take his last possession to market across the desert. "Grandfather" and "desert" are nice adaptations of the traditional fable. Another great adaptation takes a moment to show itself, as we see first the townspeople looking at them with wonder, for--we learn by turning the page--they are carrying the donkey upside down! The excellent illustrations are done in paper collage with pastel. The donkey tumbles down into the river and runs off, leaving man and grandson with nothing except for the wisdom that “Dem eigenen Herzen zu trauen ist der beste Weg.” A treasure of a book!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: GermanEd Young, translated by Katrin Schul
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