Fables & Fabulous Yarns: Columbia-Minerva Knit Fashions for Boys & Girls No. 775

Title

en_US Fables & Fabulous Yarns: Columbia-Minerva Knit Fashions for Boys & Girls No. 775

Description

en_US Sir Thomas North. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Donald Beecher, John Butler, and Carmine Di Biase

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:29Z

en_US 2007-10

en_US 1970

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 1970

Abstract

en_US This 52-page magazine is vintage 70's stuff. Psychedelic patterns abound in the background of the pictures as kids play with stuffed animals. Rosemary Winston's statement on the first page works to make sense of the connection with animals without ever mentioning fable. Rhyming poems accompany pictures of kids dressed up in knit fashions. Thus with a picture of a boy and girl with a rooster and cow one reads Four friends of rural estate/Engaged in uneven debate/With cock to preside/And calf to decide/the merits of chicken or steak (5). The non-photographic pages seem to give instructions on how to knit the garments in the pictures. There actually is a prose fable on 28 about a social climbing lion who cultivated the company of two stylish sisters only to learn that their clothes were knit inexpensively. Humbled by this lesson, he gave up pretention in favor of good company and the three became fast friends. Moral: what one finds by chance is often superior to what one seeks. One could say of fable with Dr. Seuss, My, the places you will go!

Identifier

en_US 6424 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81748

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Columbia-Minerva Corporation

en_US New York

Subject

en_US TT825.F33 1970 See all items with this value

en_US Tangential See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole