Androcles Classical accounts. Agostino Veneziano depicts the slave Androcles being freed by the Emperor in a work from 1516-17 now in the LACMA collection. There is also an early pen and wash drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi dating from the 1530s in the Hermitage Museum. Dependent on the account by Aulus Gellius, it depicts Androcles walking through a doorway with the lion on a lead at his heel. Other artists have preferred the scene of Androcles pulling the thorn from the lion's paw, as in Bernhard Rode's print of 1784. A later American example is Walter Inglis Anderson's block print scroll of
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South with simple language that brings the country setting to life: "They lived on a farm so poor, it looked like the tail end of bad luck." And Jerry Pinkney's watercolors convey the sharp contrast between Blanche's difficult home life and the hilarious celebration at the old woman's home." "Kirkus Reviews", wrote "A lively retelling of a rather hard-hearted Creole version of a widely collected folktale." and the "School Library Journal" called it "a unique contribution to the American folktale repertoire" "The Talking Eggs" has also been reviewed by "Publishers Weekly", and "Booklist". The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American