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Endangered Species and Other Fables with a Twist.
(Stemmer House, 1979)
This is the second of two extra copies of the paperback version of this book. This book easily vaults into the first rank, with Calder and Levine, for interest and wit. The tales are twisted (sometimes a la Bierce): the ...
Select Fables with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and others, previous to the year 1784: together with a Memoir; and a descriptive Catalogue of the works of Messrs. Bewick
(Baldwin Cradock, and Joy,Printed by S. Hodgson for Emerson Charnley et al, 1820)
This book is important enough to keep both copies in the collection. Here is the second copy . These two books seem interiorly identical. Of my four 1820 Bewick Select Fables, these come closest to matching Bodemann ...
My Book of 1-Minute Stories and Verses
(Exeter Books, 1987)
Here is an extra copy of this book. Thirty-seven lively stories in a book I like. Ten are Aesop's fables, all with the delightful illustrations of Malcolm Livingstone from The Best of Aesop and Other Classic Fables (1985). ...
Feathers and Tails
(Philomel Books, 1992)
Here is an extra copy of the first impression, with dust-jacket. Eighteen fables, two proverbs, and one riddle in a selection of wonderful variety and freshness. Besides old friends from La Fontaine (2), India, and Aesop ...
Fabulous Fables: Using Fables with Children.
(Scott Foresman: Harper Collins, 1991)
Here is an extra copy of this book. A very helpful book for second through fourth grades. The introduction mixes up two important things: the number of lessons and the sequence of parts in the book. There are twelve ...
Literature: Fables and Tall Tales
(Frank Schaffer Publications, 1990)
A clever book for the second and third grades. An excellent variety of activities uses nine fables for such tasks as map reading, comparing with Native American folklore, and distinguishing fact from conclusion. 2P has ...
La gallina de los huevos de oro y otros cuentos.
(Editorial Ramon Sopena, 1983)
Five fables (two attributed to LaFontaine, one each to Aesop and Samaniego, and one anonymous) with big, well produced art. Samaniego's GGE story includes many eggs and a wife who sides with the animal against her greedy ...
A Book of Fables
(Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1935)
This book is identical with another in the collection except for a few features. Like that book, it uses the plates used in my apparent first edition of Jack Orr's Aesop's Fables, which I have listed under 1927? Please ...
Fables and Fun, Vol. 2
(Marketing Ventures, 1977)
Here is one of two volumes in one of three sets. This landscape volume 9 x 8¼ has the same cover picture featuring a monkey, a lion, a mouse, and a boy removing a thorn. The pamphlet contains nineteen fables with a T of ...
Fables and Fun, Vol. 1
(Marketing Ventures, 1977)
Here is one of two volumes in one of three sets. This landscape volume 9 x 8¼ contains fourteen fables with a T of C on the back cover. The following are illustrated: TH; The Mischievous Dog; AL; Two Frogs; The Ape and ...