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The Stork and the Fox
(Henry Holt, 1993)
Good, lively art in a well-told story. The fox is a practical joker. Ms. Stork buys a new dress for the occasion and shows off her long neck with the strands of a pearl necklace. Invited in turn, Mr. Fox answers I'm ...
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
(Henry Holt, 1993)
Good, lively art in a well-told story. The city mouse stays a few days in the country before he starts complaining. In the city, he reclines wonderfully in a cake stand. At the end there is a clever introduction to ...
The Cat and the Mice
(Henry Holt, 1993)
Good, lively art in a well-told story. The book starts the story with a wonderful picture of the large family of mice not peaceful and happy. There is a wealth of anthropomorphic detail here in the description of the ...
The Grasshopper and the Ant
(Henry Holt, 1993)
Good, lively art in a dramatic story. Lots of sympathy goes here to the ant, apparently a single parent, who works hard for her children. Her home is a cozy paradise in winter, stocked with the food she has gathered and ...
The Fox and the Crow
(Henry Holt, 1993)
Particularly good, lively art. The best illustrations may be those of the crow singing and of the fox ready to catch the cheese with open jaws. The crow here is vain and conceited from the first line on. He goes right ...
The Tortoise and the Hare
(Henry Holt, 1993)
Good, lively art in a well-told story. The hare is a perpetual boaster who picks out the tortoise as someone to sneer at. The course here is a lake, and a field mouse the referee. Little black-and-white designs set off ...
The Hare and the Tortoise
(Houghton Mifflin, 1996)
What a treasure! This sideways book is an enchanting expansion of TH, with Jones' special feature of a peep hole in the text pages between full-page illustrations. The peep hole works very effectively spotlighting elements ...
Die Grille und die Ameisen
(Dr. Hans Peters Verlag, 1990)
This delightfully illustrated large-sized book represents the third language for the same publication. See both the English and Japanese editions in 1982. As I wrote of the English edition, Tharlet's work is almost ...
The Heron and the Fish
(Henry Holt, 1993)
Good, lively art. The version follows La Fontaine quite faithfully and uses the late afternoon hours to mark the progress from perch to trout to carp to minnows to a snail. The fish point their fins and giggle and gurgle ...
The Lion and the Mouse
(Henry Holt, 1993)
One of Percy's best. The good, lively art starts with a great picture of the mouse in babushka hurrying home with a stalk of wheat for her children. The children make a good factor for her appeal. There is good realism ...