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Through Fairy Halls of My Book House
(The Book House for Children, 1920)
There is one fable listed in this third of six volumes in the 1920 series of The Book House. This copy was printed in 1928, with an earlier copyright in 1920. The fable in this volume is The Acorn and the Pumpkin by La ...
School Reading by Grades: Third Year
(American Book Company, 1897)
There are four fables in this reader. MSA (10) is well told and features a good black-and-white illustration of the donkey swinging crosswise from a pole. TMCM (42) is told in a version very close to Jacobs' and offers ...
Le Monde Magique des Contes et Légendes (Livre 2)
(Les Éditions Tormont Inc., 1989)
This very large-format pamphlet is referred to in Livre 1 of the same series (containing TMCM and FS) as Livre 2, but there is no indication here that this is Book Two or even that there is a series. PML Editions is added ...
Le Monde Magique des Contes et Légendes, Livre 1.
(Les Éditions Tormont Inc., Montreal, 1989)
This very large-format pamphlet reproduces Le Coffret Magique des Contes et Légendes, II, Livre 1 but changes Coffret to Monde and drops II. It drops mention of Madison Marketing as a co-publisher and now claims only Les ...
Le Monde Magique des Contes et Légendes, Livre 1 (LM et al)
(Les Éditions Tormont Inc., 1989)
This very large-format pamphlet reproduces Wielka Skarbnica Bajek, Ksiazka 1 (also 1989?). PML Editions is added on both covers and on the title-page but is not mentioned in the title-page account of the publisher. There ...
Ancient Chinese Fables (3)
(Children's Press, 1982)
A pleasant combination of simple oriental art and wise little stories. The three stories here are: The Magic Fish (a carp in a tree trunk pool can fool many but not the man who put it there), To Suspect Someone of ...
Ancient Chinese Fables (1)
(Children's Press, 1982)
A pleasant combination of simple oriental art and wise little stories. The three stories here are: Trusting to Chance (if a rabbit runs into a tree, should you wait by the tree for the next lucky chance?), An Impostor ...
Ancient Chinese Fables (2)
(Children's Press, 1982)
A pleasant combination of simple oriental art and wise little stories. The three stories here are: Two Birds with One Stone (let one tiger kill the other, and then kill the weakened survivor), The Harm Wrought by Rumours ...
Ancient Chinese Fables (4)
(Children's Press, 1982)
A pleasant combination of simple oriental art and wise little stories. The two stories here are: The Wrong Direction (a man who wants to go south just keeps going north, disregarding advice because he has money, a good ...
Poniendo el cascabel al gato/Belling the cat.
(National Textbook Company, 1977)
Another delightful little book! The family discussion is done with care, and the illustrations are fun. The distinctive feature of this series is that near-identical books in Spanish and English are bound together.