Newport Classic Library: Aesop's Fables & Other Stories for Children, 1993

File — Box: CFC Cassettes Box 1

Identifier: CFC2024.0081.1

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

1993

Extent

5 Cassettes : Aesop's Fables & Other Stories for Children. Five Audio Cassettes. Newport Classics Library. Laguna Niguel, CA: Newport Publishers.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

"Aesop's Fables" is the first of five cassettes. The others are "Snow White/Sleeping Beauty," "Nursery Rhymes," "Sense and Nonsense," and "Fiction and Fantasy." The fable cassette seems to run about fifteen minutes on each side. There is a short introduction to Aesop and fable. Each fable has an announced title and moral. The strength of the fable presentations here lies in two facets. First, there is fine musical accompaniment throughout, including a short orchestral climax after each moral. The second feature is surprising: the speakers use a variety of accents, including mock German, Hispanic, Italian, Eastern European, and Southern United States. The versions chosen are sometimes weak. The mouse, e.g., "happens by" the lion captured in a net. The audio quality is unfortunately less than excellent.