Item
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)
- 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books