Mini Treasure Chest of Great Fairy Tales III Book 4

Title

Mini Treasure Chest of Great Fairy Tales III Book 4

Mini Treasure Chest of Great Fairy Tales III Book 4

TorMini III 4

Description

Peter Holeinone

Creator

Holeinone, Peter See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Tony Wolf, Peter Cattaneo, Severino Baraldi

Date

2016-05-09T19:54:15Z

en_US 2015-07

en_US 1991

Date Available

2016-05-09T19:54:15Z

Date Issued

1991

Abstract

The back cover lists the six stories in this 16-page pamphlet: "The Three Wishes"; "The Hole that Was Too Narrow"; "The Princess and the Pea"; "The Hare and the Tortoise"; "The Fox and the Grapes"; and "The Elves and the Shoemaker." "The Three Wishes" ends with the couple happier and better reconciled than in some versions I have seen. "The Hole that Was Too Narrow" features a stoat who, sick with hunger, discovers a tavern with a crack in the wall. He widens the crack and slithers through. The pantry he finds fulfills his wildest dreams! He keeps eating up until the time when a person enters the pantry and seizes him as he is stuck going through his old hole. He wishes he were again thin and starving! "The Hare and the Tortoise" is carefully told. The hare naps at the starting line and again after sampling some cabbages. The tortoise meantime is halfway through the course. The hare awakens when the tortoise is a yard from the finishing post. FG offers an elaborate prelude. This fox has enjoyed lots of chickens but has been bested by their owner and nearly killed. Soon he is desperate for a meal. He looks at the grapes and says "Well, if there's nothing else…." The art and arrangement are familiar from Tormont's many other publications. The front cover's picture shows the princess on top of the many mattresses on top of the pea. Otherwise the cover format and illustrations are identical with those in III 2 and III 3. Like III 2 and III 3, this Book Four of the Third Series includes no bibliographical data. Apparently one consults Book 1 of a series for that information.

Identifier

10749 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/87187

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Tormont Publications

Montreal

Subject

en_US PZ8.M566 1991 bk.4 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop and others See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole