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Aesop's Fables
(Bloomsbury Books, 1994)
Here are 143 fables, each starting on a new page, in a simple paperback claimed by no author. A quick test of the texts does not reveal a standard source. A long T of C at the beginning lists each fable. There are no ...
My First Book of Animal Stories
(Tiger Books International, 1997)
This book seems a hardbound reprint by Tiger Books International of Usborne's 1982 book Animal Stories. It thus includes -- as did that book -- the 1982 Usborne pamphlet Aesop's Fables. Like its original, the Aesop section ...
Anno's Aesop
(PenguinPuffin Books, 1989)
See my comments on the hardbound version in 1989. I note almost no changes from the hardbound, except that in the last page's credits the 1912 edition used is now referred to in terms of both its publisher (Heinemann) and ...
A Crow in Borrowed Feathers/The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf!'
(Joie Inc.Peter Haddock, 1989)
Good lively cartoon work in the Disney tradition. The righthand pages are full illustrations, while the left present the text with one telling symbol. This version adds a nymph to the crow and feathers story and makes ...
A Donkey in Lion's Disguise/A Wolf and a Lamb/The Bear and the Travelers
(Peter Haddock, 1989)
The raccoon discovers the lion-clad donkey. The lamb needs time to digest. The moral works from the lamb, not the wolf; I think that is a bad choice. One traveler is so fat that he cannot climb the tree. Good lively ...
The North Wind and the Sun/A Lion and a Mosquito/An Eagle and a Crow
(Peter Haddock, 1989)
Good lively cartoon work in the Disney tradition. The righthand pages are full illustrations, while the left present the text with one telling symbol. The English is sometimes a little off. The morals sometimes miss the ...
A Mouse's Gratitude/The Foolish Tiger and the Foolish Leopard/Outsmarting the Cat
(Peter Haddock, 1989)
The mouse is spared because she has seven children. The final story (BC) has a good moral: What you cannot do yourself, do not expect others to do. Good lively cartoon work in the Disney tradition. All in this series ...
Country Mouse and Town Mouse/The Monkey King
(Peter Haddock, 1989)
Here a hunter (Black African) gets the monkey king. Good lively cartoon work in the Disney tradition. The righthand pages are full illustrations, while the left present the text with one telling symbol. The English is ...
The Hare and the Tortoise/A Foolish Miller and His Donkey
(Peter Haddock, 1989)
Good lively cartoon work in the Disney tradition. The righthand pages are full illustrations, while the left present the text with one telling symbol. This edition corrects the mistake of substituting lead for led on 19. ...
Ants and Grasshoppers/Three Oxen and a Lion
(Peter Haddock, 1989)
There are three grasshoppers instead of the usual one. The ant's last word is Just go on singing now. The lion--in the African savanna--gets the oxen arguing among themselves. Good lively cartoon work in the Disney ...