Five or more Fables

Title

en_US Five or more Fables

Description

en_US Clarice and Alfred E. Hamill

Creator

en_US Hamill, Alfred E. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Hamill, Clarice

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:30Z

en_US 2005-08

en_US 1951

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:30Z

Date Issued

en_US 1951

Abstract

en_US This little paperbound booklet has nine items, each with an envoy at its end. I am presuming that Clarice and Alfred E. Hamill, who sent this as their Christmas greetings in 1951, are the authors and illustrators. These are light-hearted poems with a good punch line. The first has the lion trying to rally beasts against mankind. The bear, the crocodile, and the fox walk away from his urgings. Finally he turns to a mouse, whose only response is that he cannot because he has a little cold. In the second poem, a cormorant feeds on the fish in a wonderful pond, but whatever selection method he uses, he thins the pond and fattens himself. The result is that he cannot fly farther than a chicken and is devoured by foxes. The last envoy, after a poem on an iguana, may be among the best (22): Now the moral from this pimply/Reptile for us all, if queasy,/Can be stated very simply:/It is only--Take it easy! There is, by the way, a beautifully colored dressed mouse on the title-page. That is the only illustration in the booklet.

Identifier

en_US 5828 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81311

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Centaurs

en_US Lake Forest, IL

Subject

en_US PN6110.F2 F58 1951 See all items with this value

en_US Clarice and Alfred E. Hamill See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole