Childhood Fables for Grownups

Abstract

There are six fables included in this pamphlet of some 36 large-format pages. They include: Polaroli; Tigeroo; Lenny the Leopard; The Frog and the Snake; Two Worms; and The Duck and the Yak. The texts are at least partially whimsical; there may not even be a story told. Thus Polaroli is a declaration that a polar bear named Polaroli loves to eat frozen things. The zookeeper threatens to call the lion-doctor in to examine Tigeroo if he keeps eating so much, and then Tigeroo threatens to eat the doctor too! Lenny the Leopard paints over his spots and looks ridiculous, but his mother proclaims that she still loves him. The frog tells the approaching snake that he is not a frog but a golliwogg, and that a golliwogg eaten by a snake gives the snake a tummy-ache. A lonely worm finds another worm, they marry, and now they wiggle their way through life. A young duckling once wanted to become a yak, and a young yak wanted to become a duck. But it could not happen in either case. A duckling can only become a duck. There is a copyright date of 1959 on The Duck and the Yak.