Item
The Fox Book
- Title
- en_US The Fox Book
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Compiled and edited by Richard Shaw
- Creator
- en_US Shaw, Richard See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Various
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:18:33Z
- en_US 1989-06
- en_US 1971
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:18:33Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1971
- Abstract
- en_US This is a forty-eight page children's book in a series (whose name seems not to appear on the book) on various animals. See the companion The Owl Book (1970). Amid some lovely illustrations, we get all sorts of stories and lore of foxes, including some fables. From Lessing we have The Raven and the Fox (12), which turns out to be a development of the standard FC tale. The fox here addresses the raven as the royal eagle. The meat the latter has just found is poisoned, but neither knows it. The raven drops the meat, as is customary, but the fox is dead within half an hour. The little lies of the flatterer may poison the flatterer too. UP (26) is done by Kay McKemy after La Fontaine. FC in traditional form (34) is attributed to Aesop. The Two Foxes (36) is a variation of the fable on the hole in the granary. In this case one of two foxes, having eaten too much, is stuck in the hole through which he has gotten into the farmer's barn and is killed by beating.
- Identifier
- en_US 723260826
- en_US 607 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Frederick Warne
- en_US New York
- Subject
- en_US PZ5.S515 Fo 1971 See all items with this value
- en_US Collection 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