Palmer Cox's Funny Animals

Title

en_US Palmer Cox's Funny Animals

en_US Palmer Cox Series #160

en_US 0

Description

Palmer Cox

Creator

en_US Cox, Palmer See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Cox, Palmer

Date

2020-03-25T17:00:40Z

2013-07

en_US 1903

Date Available

2020-03-25T17:00:40Z

Date Issued

en_US 1903

Abstract

en_US I am glad to have an excuse for including among our fable editions a second Palmer Cox book. It is in poor condition, and the printing is particularly poor in places. Within its board covers are twelve verse stories for children of extremely varied subject matter. Three might well be considered fables. "The Elephant and Donkey" has the two on a narrow bridge. The elephant expresses his presumed right to go first, and the donkey disagrees – and then finds himself thrown up into a tree, where one can still see his bones hanging! "The Turkey in Danger" is a replay of the Chanticleer story. An older fox with a trapped turkey in a basket is schooling a younger fox along the way. As she goes over a fence, the basket is upset, and a wild chase ensues. That Turkey will never let itself be surprised again! "The Ostrich and the Man" has the ostrich finding a creative way of overcoming the man: plopping down on him in the desert! As in his other book in our collection, Cox excels in lively grotesqueries. The cheap paper and time have worked together to make the impressions of many of the engravings blotted. Unpaginated.

Identifier

en_US 12230 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/126459

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US M.A. Donohue and Company

en_US Chicago, IL

Subject

Collection See all items with this value