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Title
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en_US
Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe
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Description
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en_US
First US edition
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Bettina H├╝rlimann, translated and edited by Brian W. Alderson
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Creator
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Bettina Hurlimann
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Contributor
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Various
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Date
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2022-10-13T19:19:23Z
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2020-05
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en_US
1968
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Date Available
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2022-10-13T19:19:23Z
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Date Issued
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1968
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Abstract
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en_US
This book has presented me with a large surprise: it does not mention fables once! The index has nothing under "Fable," "Aesop," or "La Fontaine." The surprise is underscored for me when the flyleaf of the dust-jacket says that the author "traces the history of children's books in Europe from "Aesop's Fables," "Pinocchio," and "Grimm's Fairy Tales" up through more recent classics like "Struwwelpeter" and "Babar the Elephant." Those others may be there, but Aesop's fables are not. Perhaps I should take this surprise as a commendation of fables as not originally meant for children. Still, Croxall and L'Estrange and many others since have surely been thinking of children as they produced their fable books. Otherwise, I find this book is particularly engaging because the author works from a lively personal sense of books she has herself collected. The frequent illustrations are helpful. Still, I go away surprised and frankly saddened. First published in 1959 by Atlantis Verlag in Zurich as "Europäische Kinderbücher in drei Jahrhunderten."
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Identifier
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en_US
12329 (Access ID)
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Language
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en_US
eng
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Publisher
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en_US
The World Publishing Company
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en_US
Cleveland, OH
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Subject
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en_US
PN1009.A1H813 1968
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Secondary