Here is an East German book that goes back over fifty years. Unfortunately, it has spent some of that time in someone's musty cellar! The German is in six-line rhyming strophes. This version tells the story very well, ...

Originally published (in 1957?) by Cengage Learning, Australia. This is a 16-page pamphlet featuring double-page spreads of remarkably detailed colored illustrations. This version stresses the vanity of the heron, who ...

I already list a copy of the first printing that I received as a gift. This copy, from the fourth printing, adds a Caldecott Medal Award gold seal on the front dust-jacket. As I wrote there, my form lists Pinkney as the ...

Originally copyrighted by Nord-Süd Verlag in 1972. This revised edition first published in Great Britain in 1983 by Andersen Press Ltd. The back cover speaks of this revised edition of one of Ralph Steadman's early ...

Golden Books have grown up in size! This Golden Book is just under 8½ x 11. As the cover proclaims, it features activities and stories starring the letter I. This 48-page book alternates colored and black-and-white ...

Rose's calls this a fable, and I will not argue. It is not a known -- at least to me -- Aesopic fable. Porcupine needs a nut and goes to the wolf to ask him to crack it. Wolf has never done a favor before. Doing this ...

Here is an extra copy. This is a 24-page booklet made apparently for developing fluidity in English through reader's theater. There are eight booklets in the series. I have the equivalent Spanish series of eight, including ...

This is a contemporary development of what many take to be the central thrust of TMCM, namely that each is happiest in her or his own element. The adaptation to contemporary life is enjoyable. Bernelly lives in the country ...

This book is 6 x 8½ and has 24 pages. The illustrations were painted with watercolor. The story is well told. Text and illustrations make for a lively telling of the fable. There is no ultimate resolution here. The ...

As I mention of the English version, this book is 6 x 8½ and has 24 pages. The illustrations were prepared digitally. This book offers great facial expressions for the crow on, e.g., 5 and 11. The cover illustration has ...