GHI Songs, Stories, Fables. The Alphabet Series CD, 1997

Item — Box: CFC CDs Box 1

Identifier: CFC2021.0361.3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1997

Extent

1 CDs : Series compiled by Lucy Toppetta. Music by Matthew Campanozzi. Narration and Singing by Emilu Productions. Manufactured in the USA. New Hope, MN: The Alphabet Series: Mint Studios: Navarre: ©1997 Public Music Inc.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This disc has two fables, besides its songs and stories, with a steady background of classical music. They are Tracks 21 and 22. The first features a male narrator with a non-native English accent. "The Goat And The Fox" runs 2:04 and starts in medias res. When the goat appears, the fox seizes his opportunity. The fox lets the goat first drink and then ask the question about getting out. The fox laughs as he goes on his way. "You should always look carefully before you do something." TH runs 5:03, uses a female narrator, and has mother tortoise announce the moral as a general lesson to her children early in the story. "There's no place I really want to go, so I have no need to go hurrying," Tortoise says to Hare's taunting. Hare goes to sleep a second time upon seeing that tortoise has not made much progress during his nap. "Slow and steady will get you to your goals."