H Kota me ta Xrysa Auga (The Goose and the Golden Eggs)

Abstract

This booklet is one of twelve published by Rekos in Greek, apparently upon the designs done by Susaeta for a European-language edition. Its sixteen pages display excellent and lively colored illustrations. Notice how skillfully the editors take the first two-page spread, move the hen into the owner's hand, and produce a single-page cover. This version of the story has the owner believing that there is an egg-producing machine inside the hen He kills the hen to get that machine! One of the best illustrations shows his horrified surprise when he views the hen's innards.