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The Boy Who Cried Wolf and more children's fables: 5 stories

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf and more children's fables: 5 stories

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2010 The Boy Who Cried Wolf and more children's fables: 5 stories. Scholastic Storybook Treasures. A Read-Along DVD. 74 minutes. Illustrations by Boris Kulikov, Marcia Brown and others. $10 from Richard Nelson Auctions, Arnold, MO, through Ebay, Nov., '10.

Two of the five stories here seem to me to be fables. There are extras, including an interview with Boris Kulikov on his development of the classic fable, including architecture and costumes from various periods and introducing a fly who appears several times during the fable. The shepherd boy is bored with the sheep's "munch, munch, munch." They do not want to play. For the first day's trick, he reports one wolf, which people seek but do not find. The second day he reports two wolves. On the third day there are three wolves, and they are thinking "lunch, lunch, lunch." There is no report of losses after the third incident. In fact, one can see most of the sheep up in the tree! There is also Marcia Brown's classic "Stone Soup," mistakenly reported on the clamshell as narrated by her. As in her book, there are three soldiers and they convert selfish townfolk who at first hide their food from them. This fable has distinctly French settings and names. The disk advertises having been done with Russian resources and help.

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$10 from Richard Nelson Auctions, Arnold, MO, through Ebay, Nov., '10.

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Carlson Fable Collection

Citation

“The Boy Who Cried Wolf and more children's fables: 5 stories,” Creighton University Libraries: Archives & Special Collections, accessed November 15, 2024, https://creightonarchives.omeka.net/items/show/635.

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