"Once again, things come together from different times and places. In Salamanca in 1986, I found a simple pop-up from a publisher I did not know. Sixteen years later I found a French die-cut presentation of LM done by ...

A cumulative book. The horse sends the fox to get a knife with which the horse can kill himself to feed the starving fox. The search carries the fox to the sorcerer for his knife, God for his grindstone, the oxen of the ...

This is an old fable that children and grown-ups in India enjoy says the first page of this book. Visually, the delight of this book lies in its lavish use of gold, I would say, and in the great dance of the six blind ...

The delightful story of Pousette and Vif.. Much is added: the names, a provocation, character descriptions, fans on both sides, a description of the night before, the goal, and some activities along the way. For a direct ...

Cute. Interesting added elements: a hawk's attack is thwarted by the city-mouse's cigar; there is a mouse family in the city; and the mice face a vacuum-cleaner. In both country and city, various offenses make the ...

A cute big-format book with charmingly dressed mice. The expansions of the story do not all work well: the country mouse really is a boy scout, and do cars fit in a fable? The cover pictures may be the best of all in ...

Here is an extra copy in poor condition with some pages out of order. At first this edition looks exactly like that from David McKay of the same year. But there are some clear differences. See my comments there and then ...

Here is a second extra copy of this booklet. There are two Easter eggs pasted on 30 of the good copy, and there is some water staining on the older extra, but this is a delightful pamphlet. The fable is well told. Tom ...

Here is an extra copy of this booklet. Now I find the fifth version of this book! I stopped by Cal's for nostalgic reasons and was delighted to find this booklet there and to bargain for it with the daughter of the now ...

A delightfully illustrated large-sized book. Almost Anno-like in its care for detail. This story can be hard to tell well. This teller has the grasshopper realize the folly of his ways at the end and resolve to act ...