How The Tiger Got His Stripes - plus Zoë commentary

Another Just Not So story. I'll start us off with two pages: 

And:

Now I've just got to finish the story.

Zoë and Mei Mei are sick (what's new), but Zoë managed to complete some other art projects recently:

That's an episode from Roald Dahl, The Witches. And:

Zoe does literary criticism. These are summaries of her home readings that she does for school. The "Salt Is Better Than Gold" one is very nice - the book, I mean. I bought it so Zoë could appreciate the illustration:

We are currently seriously addicted to "Kitchen Princess". We have read all the way through volume 3.

Oh, and apparently search engines will like it more if I link to my book while clearly identifying it as a book about Plato! Plato! Plato! (Just a little experiment in shameless SEO, there. Science advances, it truly does.)

Comments

[woof]

Watercolor on crayon cutouts?

[jholbo]

I think it's actually crayon on oil. And not a cutout. But I can see how the scan makes it look the other way. It's a fun book. I saw some scans online and took a shine and tracked it down through AbeBooks. It's a 1968 edition.

[Salient]

That is an admirably out-of-place deployment of the word "editorialized".

Also: the Fairy forgot to paint his own cloak. I am hoping this factors in, somehow.

[Gabe]

Did you know this story was the original source ofr King Lear?

[jholbo]

Hey Gabe, that's a very funny coincidence. Zoe told us today that she needed to bring 'something about Shakespeare' for her school drama club, and I actually tried to tell her a bit about King Lear and how it was similar to the Ledushka story but then it just got hilarious. Zoe was like: why did the old man think he'd fallen a long way down to the beach if he'd only fallen a short way? And all I could say was: it's like that scene from "Porky in Wackyland" where Porky is falling and falling in front of the screen that is only a few feet tall and ... oh, never mind.