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Title
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en_US
Merry Animal Tales
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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First thus
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Madge A. Bigham
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Creator
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Bigham, Madge A.
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Contributor
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Fitts, Clara Atwood
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:07:08Z
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1993-07
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1929
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:07:08Z
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Date Issued
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1929
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Abstract
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A delightful book that I have read carefully. It is unusual in pulling its thirty-five traditional fables, based on those of LaFontaine, into one almost seamless narrative. There are happy endings here. For example, the eagle does not eat the little owls that he takes from the nest (152), and the fox caught after his many tricks is sold to the circus (139). Many actors are changed. Universal Peace involves the fox and turkeys (131). A frog, not a turtle, is carried through the air on a stick (176); he gets up to walk home after he falls. Blackie the rat, not a weasel, is caught in the corn-house with a crack in the wall (64). There are seven full-page colored illustrations, with many black-and-white illustrations in the text. Maybe the best of the latter shows the rat family moving to the country with the help of a toy pull-horse (17). Chapter XXVI is a difficult-to-believe version of The Monkey and the Cat. T of C at the beginning, with lists of both kinds of illustrations.
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Identifier
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1681 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Little Brown and Company,
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Boston, MA
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Subject
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PZ10.3.B465 Me 1929
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Aesop
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole