Similar to, and in a series with, Jungle Doctor's Fables (1955/66). Nine stories present monkey wisdom, which is the kind of foolishness that Christianity overcomes. The stories are sometimes good, sometimes belabored. ...

This book came originally from St. Cecilia Grade School in Omaha. It has two nice sections on the fables of Aesop and of India, respectively (220-225 and 226-31). Though Joseph Jacobs is on the editorial board, the ...

A large-format book on cheap paper with sixteen previous copyrights mentioned on its T of C page. There are two fables in here, both with lively, pleasant colored drawings. I only wish I knew which of the three illustrators ...

This book seems to have been compiled from five earlier books. In particular, six of the seven fables presented here were presented by Offen and Yeatman in A Treasury of Animal Stories (1982). Many of the black-and-white ...

An oversized book containing some ten children's stories, the last of which is TMCM (59). Both mice are female and dressed, the city mouse elegantly. The country mouse lives under the eaves of a farmhouse. The cat and ...

This book seems nearly identical to my 1938/52 copies except for these points: First, the cover here is blue with gold embossing and a picture of a woman storyteller and some children. Secondly, colored and black-and-white ...

Here is an anthology of which I had not known. The book contains a large collection of stories and story-types. First comes a section of fables and tales from oral traditions. A brief overview of this section suggests ...

Twenty years ago I found the 1994 paperback of the same title and author and wrote "According to a note at the end of the book, the series in which this paperback is featured is a resurrection of a series done (starting ...

This is my fifth edition of Ravi Shankar's illustrations and my sixth of Vikram Seth's stories. The original copyright seems to have belonged to Viking Penguin in India in 1992, though subsequent editions usually trace ...

Twenty enjoyable little stories, seven of them nicely illustrated with crayons. I am surprised at the number of fables that use household objects, like the opener about a mailbox that rusts out of unrequited love for a ...