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How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant; The Man Who Kept House; Why the Bear Has a Short Tail (Cover: How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant and Other Stories)
- Title
- en_US How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant; The Man Who Kept House; Why the Bear Has a Short Tail (Cover: How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant and Other Stories)
- en_US Wonder Books #508
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Selected by Louise B. Williams
- Creator
- en_US Sari See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Sari
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:30:49Z
- en_US 2000-01
- en_US 1946
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:30:49Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1946
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a new and curious experience. This book is the predecessor of another that I have already catalogued. That book's title begins Why the Bear Has a Short Tail and it is listed in 1946. Now I have found this version which retains the same number, but many things have changed. They include the name of the series, which has changed from Wonder Books--with the Washable Covers to just Wonder Books. This earlier book is larger--about 7½ x 9¾ rather than about 6½ x 8--and each of the illustrations is proportionally larger. This earlier book also has a different order of stories, and the title of the book is accordingly different. It uses a different color (salmon) and design for the cover. Here a hare reads a page about an elephant, whereas the smaller book pictures three bears against a yellow background. One of those bears reaches back to his short tail. As my comments there point out, one of the three stories is after the pattern of the wolf fishing. The title story has the clever rabbit pitting the whale and elephant against each other without their knowing it. Ludwig Bemelmans originally wrote this rabbit-story under the title Rosebud in 1942.
- Identifier
- en_US 3365 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Wonder Books
- en_US New York, NY
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.1.W55 How 1946 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop and others See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books