Fables and Fairy Tales

Title

en_US Fables and Fairy Tales

en_US New Method Readers

Description

en_US Simplified by Michael West

Creator

en_US West, Michael See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Illustrated by Winifred Townshend and Mrs. Michael West

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:34Z

en_US 2000-11

en_US 1955

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:34Z

Date Issued

en_US 1931?

Abstract

en_US Finding this pamphlet allows me to reconstruct a little publishing history. I had already found a remake of this booklet from 1980, which gives as the original date of publication 1931. See my comments there. The structure of this booklet is the same: five fables followed by Stories of Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Fox and by Fairy Tales. The illustrator here (Winifred Townshend for the fables) will be replaced there. The first fable, The Old Cat, recasts the traditional story of an old dog and a hunter. Here an old woman is involved. TMCM is then followed by The Man and the Apples, in which a man on his way to a rich man's house for dinner throws away a box of good apples he finds because he expects a good meal. Alas, he encounters a flooding river and cannot get to the expected big dinner. He returns to take his apples out of the dust and to eat them. In TB the second man is fat and so cannot get up the tree. BC finishes the set. There are questions for each fable on 49-51. This booklet uses all capitals for titles; the later edition will make a point of using small letters for its titles. I am surprised to see this printing sent out to Holland in the 1950's.

Identifier

en_US 0582525446

en_US 3754 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79102

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Longmans Green and Co.,

en_US London

Subject

en_US PE1130.A1 W519 1955 See all items with this value

en_US Reader See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Pamphlet