2017 Bill and Jeff Keane, “Family Circus.” King Features. Unknown source.
The fun here rests on the presumption that every good story is made into a film. Actually, with the book that mother is reading to this precocious child, that turns out to be true!
2012 Fairy Tales from Around the World. DVD? Phoenix E-Books UK. 206 books, each with its own pdf showing each book from cover to cover. Plus two further sections on the books of various colors by Andrew Lang and a set of Japanese tales. Unknown source.
It has taken me a long time to get to cataloguing this unassuming disc. The long wait has only reinforced my surprise at finding the immense treasure-house here! From the fable world, I find at least four important books. First is "An Argosy of Fables" by Frederic Taber Cooper in 1921 with colored illustrations by Paul Bransom. Next is Percy Billinghurst's "A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine" from 1898. Then there is a version of Benjamin Rabier's presentation of La Fontaine in French, featuring some fully-colored and some duochrome illustrations. Finally there is Fredk. Colin Tilney's "The Original Fables of La Fontaine" from 1913. Do not judge a book – or a disc – by its cover!
2010? Fairy Tales and Fables J-I-N-G-O. Diane Butikofer. Printed in China. GGA 197. Carthage, IL: Gary Grimm and Associates. $12 from an unknown source.
"A bingo style game -- fun for all ages." "Jingo is played just like bingo, but pictures replace numbers on the player's card." Though the package is still sealed, one can make out on the bingo board pictured on the cover both "Wolf! Wolf!" and a tortoise. There is also a question page pictured that asks "What slow animal won the race with the hare?" I learned that there are many "Jingo" games done by the same manufacturer and by others.
1910? Five Piedmont Cigarette Fairy Tale Stamps. Reynard the Fox #2 (with an extra), #3, #4, and #5. Sixty in series. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. Printed in Germany. Berlin and NY: Wentz and Co. $10 for an envelope of many in the series from Clipper Cargo at the Sacramento Paper Fair, Dec., '96.
"Fairy Tale stamps explain in picture form the famous childhood stories of the world," says the back of each stamp. The four scenes here show the bear caught in a trap, Reynard called before the king's court, Mrs. Wolf caught in the ice, and Reynard hard pressed. There is an artist's name printed in the lower right of at least two of the stamps, but it is far too small for me to make out even with a magnifying glass.
