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The Lion and the Mouse
(Crown PublishersDerrydale Books /, 1988)
Large-format pop-up with very kitschy pictures.
The Hare and the Tortoise
(Macmillan, 1988)
Here is the second of two extra copies of this book. Brief, like the other three books in this set. Maybe the brevity hurts here. The drawings are lively, but the race is unmotivated. Moral: Sometimes it is better to ...
The Hare and the Tortoise
(Macmillan, 1988)
Here is the first of two extra copies of this book. Brief, like the other three books in this set. Maybe the brevity hurts here. The drawings are lively, but the race is unmotivated. Moral: Sometimes it is better to ...
The Bear and the Travellers
(The Wright Group, 1988)
Another nicely conceived work by Biro. Sixteen pages. I have been fortunate to find the whole set of #13-18 on eBay. TB in this volume has an older and a younger friend. The latter forsakes the former. The bear surprises ...
Pérez y Martina/Pérez and Martina
(National Textbook Company, 1988)
This story does not strike me as being a fable in the traditional sense. However, it is a delightful story. Martina is a beautiful ant. Many wooers come beneath her balcony: cat, duck, dog, rooster, frog, bull, pig, and ...
The Tortoise and the Hare
(Crown Publishers, 1988)
Here is an extra copy of this book. Large-format pop-up with very kitschy pictures. In 1997, this book is offered for $17.50 by Trevor Blake in Portland, Oregon.
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
(Crown Publishers, 1988)
Here is an extra copy of this book. Large-format pop-up with very kitschy pictures.
El águila y el escarabajo.
(Editorial Everest, 1988)
Verbatim text of Samaniego followed by sixteen pages of vintage Disney. The eagle becomes a wolf, the dung beetle a duckling, the hare a bird, Jupiter a bear. Generally an excellent match, though the wolf does not devour ...
La cigarra y la hormiga
(Editorial Everest, 1988)
Verbatim text of Samaniego followed by sixteen pages of vintage Disney. Pete Pata Palo (a dog?), alias el Cigarra, runs into Grandma Duck but refuses to work for her. Against the pattern of Samaniego's ant's response, ...
The Lion and the Mouse
(Cat Publishing, 1988)
This is a large-format pop-up book with kitschy pictures. I found it twenty-three years ago at Aspidistra Books in Chicago. Now I found it online. This copy is identical, even down to acknowledging Ottenheimer Publishers ...