Open Your Ears: Aesop's Fables 1-2, 2005

Item — Box: CFC Cassettes Box 1

Identifier: CFC2024.0080.1

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

2005

Extent

1 Cassettes : Aesop's Fables 1-2. Xi'an, China: Open Your Ears: Xi'an Jiaotong University Press.

Language of Materials

Chinese

Additional Description

Abstract

This is one of two audio-cassettes accompanying a book of the same name. Apparently each of the four sides contains about ten fables. of the forty-one fables in the book. The book enhances each English text with vocabulary, translations, and "listening points." The cassettes present, after some opening Chinese, a reading of each of the fables with its listening points. These idiomatic phrases may be the strongest point of these tapes and of this combined publication. The tapes feature good native American speakers. I see some references to 2008 on the verso of the title-page, but I will trust the eBay seller's statement that the book was published in 2005 and that this is a copy of its first edition. All of the information on the cassettes except their numbers 1a, 1b, 2a, and 2b is in Chinese. There is a "3" on each side of each cassette; perhaps Aesop's Fables is the third book in the series "Open Your Ears."