A beautiful large-format hardbound book in excellent condition. The version used here departs significantly from LaFontaine's text. This version adds--and puts special emphasis on--the children who come out to listen to ...

Nice simple big landscape pictures, one to a page. In this version, the mean-eyed, hairy cat greets the mice: Hello, boys. Having some dinner? Hot rolls and cake are the symbols of the city's luxury. The two mice shake ...

I cannot believe the various editions of this book that I am finding! I think this makes the sixth. It seems to replicate #407 perfectly in terms of the sequence of pictures. Is it perhaps a more recent version of it? ...

An excellent book. Though it seems to exploit every possibility the story offers, it does so with good art and good sensibility. Ink-and-watercolor combine for lively art of varying sizes. Craig's presentation develops ...

A tall, stiff-paged book of five boards. The city pages (4-5 if the cover is 1) show a good deal of interesting action going on. Unfortunately, their last sentence also features a badly dangling modifier. Note the ...

A clever combination of drawing and simple text to tell a good story of relationship, including concern, struggle, separation, and the refinding of each other. Part of the book's delight lies in the expressive shapes that ...

A stiff-board book of six two-sided pages, with the cover as title page and the back giving the moral. Apparently one of a series of four. An extra comma after the subject dove mars a sentence on 4. The hunter here ...

See the original publication of this book by Oxford University Press in 1965 and my comments there. These copies belonged to a library and received extensive use. Some pages have been torn and wrinkled. I will keep both ...

This is an extra copy missing the first title-page from the same source for the same price. Here is another case where I got a backup copy only to discover that I had only the paperback (1963/86). See my comments there.

Here is an extra copy. Harmless, simple cartoons. The boasting hare waited in order to make the finish exciting, and the wait led to a two-minute nap that stretched on and on. The hare could never boast again.