Merry Animal Tales

Title

en_US Merry Animal Tales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First thus

en_US Madge A. Bigham

Creator

en_US Bigham, Madge A. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Fitts, Clara Atwood

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:08Z

en_US 1993-07

en_US 1929

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:08Z

Date Issued

en_US 1929

Abstract

en_US A delightful book that I have read carefully. It is unusual in pulling its thirty-five traditional fables, based on those of LaFontaine, into one almost seamless narrative. There are happy endings here. For example, the eagle does not eat the little owls that he takes from the nest (152), and the fox caught after his many tricks is sold to the circus (139). Many actors are changed. Universal Peace involves the fox and turkeys (131). A frog, not a turtle, is carried through the air on a stick (176); he gets up to walk home after he falls. Blackie the rat, not a weasel, is caught in the corn-house with a crack in the wall (64). There are seven full-page colored illustrations, with many black-and-white illustrations in the text. Maybe the best of the latter shows the rat family moving to the country with the help of a toy pull-horse (17). Chapter XXVI is a difficult-to-believe version of The Monkey and the Cat. T of C at the beginning, with lists of both kinds of illustrations.

Identifier

en_US 1681 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77250

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Little Brown and Company,

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PZ10.3.B465 Me 1929 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole