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God's Voice in the Folklore: Nonsense Rhymes and Great Legends
(Macalester Park Publishing Company, 1956)
The great tales of fairyland are symbols of our own subconscious nature--allegories of truths too profound for words. Armed with excitement about what can be found in the simplest stories, the author offers various genres ...
Magic Strings: Marionette plays with production notes
(The Macmillan Company, 1939)
Bufano is eager to give the marionette-theater-producer all the encouragement, help, and liberty he can for engaging performances. Three of the eleven shows proposed here deal with Aesopic material. Aesop's Jungle (15-25) ...
Antología de Fábulas
(Editorial Labor, S.A., 1969)
Here is a huge and wonderful resource! Its 918 pages are full of texts and information. After an opening T of C, there is a substantial prologue (1-88). Four sections of texts follow: Fábulas Castellanas, Catalanas, ...
Fábulas sin Moraleja y Finales Cuentos
(University of Mexico Press, 1942)
The fables section of this surprising book (3-62) includes six fables from Aesop, seven from Iriarte, eight from La Fontaine, and six from José Rosas (Moreno?). Finales de Cuentos includes sections given to Vanegas Arroyo, ...
Fábulas sin Moraleja y Finales Cuentos
(University of Mexico Press[Imprenta universitaria], 1942)
Here is a paperbound version in good condition of a book whose hardbound version I have already listed. The fables section of this surprising book (3-62) includes six fables from Aesop, seven from Iriarte, eight from La ...
Last Fairy Tales
(Harper & Brothers, 1884)
This eclectic collection of twenty-seven stories includes two that are listed as fables. The Wolf and the Goat (221) is an expansive story of some nine pages. It is subtitled A Mediaeval Fable. The wolf presses the goat ...
Tortoise's Flying Lesson
(Harcourt Brace, 1995)
Eight children's stories very colorfully illustrated. The monkey gets the crocodiles to form a bridge across the river to the mango tree. Father Bear selects gentle hare to take care of his cubs. Tortoise's Flying ...
The Fox and the Cat: Kevin Crossley-Holland's Animal Tales from Grimm.
(Lothrop Lee & Shepard Books,, 1986)
Among the eleven stories here are two traditional fables. In The Fox and the Cat (7), the fox is caught by the dogs before he can start to use his sack of tricks. In The Hare and the Hedgehog (39), the hare dies ...
One-Minute Bedtime Stories
(Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1991)
See my comments under the 1982 original. I see little change here except that O'Kun and Cumings do not get short biographies as they did in the original version's last page. Shari Lewis still gets hers.
Stories for the Children's Hour
(Metropolitan Church Association, 1930)
A hoot! All sorts of pious stories, including the evils of tobacco, what we want little girls and little boys to be, the gingercake man, the Last Supper, and Gethsemane. In the middle (34) of it all comes The Bundle ...