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The Boy Who Cried Wolf

1962 "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." #16. Kenner-Color Slides for use with Kenner's Give-A-Show Projector. Made and printed in U.S.A. Kenner Products Co. $3 from John Anway, Redford, MI, Feb., '00.

7 four-colored panels. There is less text here. Panels…

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

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…

The Crane and the Crayfish

1890? One two-piece brass button, 1 3/8" in diameter, picturing "The Crane and the Crayfish." $25 from Onie Wiedeman, Minot, ND, May, '99.

BBB Plate 154 # 2. For the editors there the identification of the fable is not certain. I am not sure that…

The Crane and the Fish

1890? One brass button, 7/8" in diameter, picturing "The Crane and the Fish." $8.33 from Robin Larner, July, '99.

I can find this button in neither BBB nor Nelson and Sweat "Fables on Buttons" in The National Button Bulletin (Oct., '86). The…

The Dog Who Carried His Master's Dinner

1890? Two two-piece brass buttons, 9/16" in diameter, picturing " The Dog Who Carried His Master's Dinner." $12 from Joni Goldbarg through Ebay, April, '99, and a gift of Robin Larner, Rochester, NY, May, '99.

This is perhaps the simplest of the…

The Eagle and the Crow

1890? 1 brass button of the eagle and the stag, 1" in diameter for $14.99 from Gloria Badger, Franks for the Memories, West Hills, CA, through Ebay, Feb., '00.

See my other button showing this fable for the story. This is a darker button with a…

The Eagle and the Owl

1990/91 The Eagle and the Owl. Aesop's Fable. Introduced by Bill Cosby as Aesop. Plus a Sing-A-Long Cartoon. About 30 minutes. #40002. Freehold, NJ: ©1990 Trans Atlantic Video. Anaheim: ©1991 Diamond Entertainment Corporation. Gift of John Carlson,…

The Eagle and the Stag

1890? 1 brass button of the eagle and the stag, 1" in diameter for $13 from Robin Larner, Rochester, NY, through Ebay, April, '99.

Though this theme of the eagle and stag is listed as a standard button motif, I have no idea what the fable is that…

The Fables of Aesop. Canning Street Press. 1991.

The Fox and the Crow

1890? 1 circular FC button, red tinted brass, 1 1/16" in diameter. $25 from Onie Wiedeman, Minot, ND, May, '99.

Though the image seems very famliar, I cannot place the button in BBB. The scene is basically the same as that on my two Monleón…

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