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Title
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Animal Fables and Other Tales Retold
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Description
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Apparent first edition
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Retold by Enid F. D'Oyley
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Creator
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D'Oyley, Enid
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Contributor
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Illustrations by Larissa Kauperman
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:13:08Z
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2003-06
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1982
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:13:08Z
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Date Issued
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1982
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Abstract
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Here is the Canadian first edition of a book I had found in its first US edition from 1988. I had long overlooked the discrepancy, and I even wondered whether it was worth including this copy in the collection. Surprise! Let me repeat some of what I wrote there. That book is a thirty-five page pamphlet containing twelve stories with six illustrations. Here I find forty pages, and the pagination is different. The stories are not fables but rather folktales brought especially by the Yoruba to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the Southern USA. The black-and-white art at least suggests a perspective different from mainline North American. The stories have plenty of standard folktale material: gods, etiology, boasting, tricking, and magic. The best of the stories is The Tortoise and the Elephant (23). Note The Monkey and the Wax Doll (34), our Tar Baby story. Some stories here tend to start new episodes when the story is already well done or to take it all back in the last sentence (e.g., 38). Did the 1988 US version skip the middle initial on the title-page--or did D'Oyley drop it in the intervening six years?
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Identifier
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0887950205
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4595 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Williams-Wallace International
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Toronto
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Subject
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PR9199.3.D65 A8 1982
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African, Brazilian, and Caribbean
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Pamphlet