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Mille et une Histoires: les Renards
(Fleurus Presse, 2002)
"This is the February, 2002, number of a subscription pamphlet for young people and their parents. It contains four fox stories. From "Roman de Renard" comes the fable about the tail of Ysengrim. From "Kamchatka" comes ...
Stories from India
(The Garrard Press, 1961)
"This book is of piece with other Dolch offerings from Garrard. The stories are well told. Each is illustrated with an appropriate full-page colored picture. Especially the early stories of the eighteen in the book are ...
Peace Tales: World Folktales to Talk About
(Linnet Books: The Shoe String Press, Inc., 1992)
"This book works for peacemaking by telling stories and asking readers to think and talk about them. There is probably something fable-like in each of the 37 stories. I notice eight that are more properly fables. They ...
Mís fábulas favorítas
(Susaeta, 2004)
"Here is a large-format stapled pamphlet of 24 pages that spent too long in a musty basement. It presents some heavy handed themes for little readers? TH is pictured in flowerchild fashion on the cover, with bugs and ...
Children's Classic Stories: Fairytales, fables & folktales
(Bardfield Press: Miles Kelly Publishing, 2004)
"I had previously found a first printing of the 2004 edition of this work, which has a copyright year of 2004 but claims to be an edition published in 2007. It seems to be a sixth printing. I find it hard to put all that ...
Outfoxing Fear: Folktales from Around the World
(W.W. Norton, 2006)
"This book is written in the wake of 9/11. It offers lots of helpful story perspectives on dealing with fear in a frightening world. I am happy that several fables make their way into this collection. I may have missed ...
One by One: A Child's Book of Tales and Fables, With Fifty Illustrations
(George Routledge and Sons, 1880)
"This book is identical with another in the collection except that this cover is green cloth embossed with gold, while that book has a red cloth cover embossed with gold. Let me repeat what I wrote there. Here are ...
Brooks's Readers: Fifth Year
(American Book Company, 1906)
This is my second book in this series; I have Brooks's Readers: Third Year, published in the same year. Here one finds on 78-80 The Fox in the Well, a verse version of The Fox and the Wolf by J.T. Trowbridge. Joseph ...
The Garden of Joys
(Saqi Books, 2000)
This is the paperback version of a hardbound book published in 1979 by Namara. I notice four changes in the transition. Now Saqi is publisher. Secondly, the Foreword here is a rewriting of the old Preface. This statement ...
Quellen heiterer Tierweisheit
(Verlag Leobuchhandlung St. Gallen, 1971)
I thought that I recognized this little spiral-bound book of thoughts and poems. It turns out that it is uniform in format with Springs of Animal Wisdom, published by Marcel Schurman Company in 1986. While the selection ...