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Suomen Kansan Satuia (Finnish Fables)
(Sanomalehti Oy Nylandin Kirjapaino, 1946)
Here is a book I have come to possess because it was advertised as Finnish Fables. My suspicion from looking at the simple line-drawings is that these are more fairy tales than fables. At any rate, the book has 200 pages. ...
The International Library of Masterpieces, Literature, Art, and Rare Manuscripts.
(The International Bibliophile Society, 1901)
Fourteen fables show up (90-96) under Aesop in this volume that handles A up to Antar. In LS (92), the lion was in league with several, but only three others, unnamed, happened to be present at this time of the deer's ...
Folk Tales from Korea
(Hollym International Corp., 1952)
An excellent compendium of Korean folk literature. The fifteen-page section on fables (183-97) contains nineteen fables. The Bald Old Man (191) is very close to Aesop; the wife suspects a mistress and so the husband ...
Story and Verse for Children
(Macmillan, 1940)
Compare this book with the first edition. The same twelve fables from Jacobs appear, now on 325-29. Now there is one black-and-white illustration, unacknowledged, for LM. There are suggestions for the appropriate grades, ...
Quick Wits and Nimble Fingers
(Abingdon, 1979)
The Burro's Load (67) is developed from the La Fontaine fable about salt and sponges. It is labelled as coming from Mexico. In this version, the friendly owner invites the burro to cool his feet in the stream. The burro ...
Stories and Legends of Two Worlds
(Exposition Press, 1960)
A strange, talkative adaptation of Greek mythology to American mountain folklore, heavy on devils, guardian angels, and magic. There is no explanation of the background or method. Simple illustrations. SW (94) is vintage ...
Vorlese-Geschichten
(Remus, 1993)
This is a nice set of stories to read children four years old and older. It contains one fable, well told with a colored picture: Kürbis und Eichel (17). It is labeled simply Fabel. Neither La Fontaine nor another source ...
One-Minute Bedtime Stories
(Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1991)
This book is identical with another in the collection, with the same publication year. This book is, however, a sixth printing, whereas that is a first. There is a difference in the endpapers. In that first printing, ...
When the Animals Could Talk: Fables
(Dnipro, 1987)
This book is a new edition of a book from the same publisher in 1984. The book is improved in a number of ways. The cover background is a bright yellow, and the author and title are set off now by a wavy pair of lines ...
Favorite Fairy Tales Told in India
(Beech Tree BooksBeech Tree Paperback, 1994)
According to a note at the end of the book, the series in which this paperback is featured is a resurrection of a series done (starting in the 1950's?) by Little, Brown as the Favorite Fairy Tales series in hardback. Now ...