Item
Picture Fables
- Title
- en_US Picture Fables
- en_US Mother's Series
- Description
- en_US Retold by Dandi
- Creator
- en_US No Author See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:51:01Z
- en_US 1998-08
- en_US 1898?
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:51:01Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1898
- Abstract
- en_US This toy book is unusual in its size, since it is 4¾ x 6; most other toy books that I have seen have been larger. It is also perhaps unusual in having a two-color cover but multi-colored images on each of its eight pages inside. The fables seem to me closest to Hey's fables. That is, they are not really fables but most frequently a conjunction of a dialogue and a reflection. A boy asks a butterfly what it lives on, and the butterfly answers blossom-scent, and sunshine fair. The poetry suffers from needing to repeat sentence subjects: The cow she said nothing in reply. The last story comes closest to being a fable. A boy asks a goat why he has a beard and horns. The child tests the goat's answer by pulling his beard, and learns to stop doing that by experiencing the goat's horns!
- Identifier
- en_US 3847 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US McLoughlin Brothers
- en_US New York
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.3.P598 1898 See all items with this value
- en_US Toy book See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books