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Title
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Four and Twenty Famous Tales: A Book of Select Fables with Graded Comprehension Tests for Silent Reading in Lower Grades
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Description
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Anna Clark Nelson
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Creator
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Nelson, Anna Clark
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:30:27Z
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2000-04
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1937
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:30:27Z
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Date Issued
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1937
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Abstract
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See this book's predecessor with the same title, published in 1923. By now Anna Clark has added a name, and the publisher has added Schmitt before Hall & McCreary. The title-page touts this book as A Silent Reader. Very good condition. Back in Omaha, I want to compare the two booklets. AI at the front. There are questions on each story in the back. Many stories have one small square illustration. The tellings are simple, since the book is intended for the lower grades. Some peculiarities about the tellings strike me. In #5 (15) the kid gets the wolf to pipe at least three times before he would eat him. SW (#7, 18) is told in the poorer version. The Rabbit and the Hedgehog (#9, 22) involves two races, asking for an explanation, getting it, and splitting the winnings. In The Arab and the Camel (#11, 27), the key is getting not the camel's nose but his head into the tent. FK (#13, 31) involves three kings for the frogs: a log, an eel, and a stork. At the end, there are no frogs left. BW (#15, 35) has three phases: all the men come, then very few come, and then none come. In ML (#18, 45), the little larks' wings work when they need to. I have seen The Lost Camel (#19, 46) before; the lost camel is described perfectly from careful observance of evidence. I am delighted to have found this book on a beautiful spring afternoon that brought me back to Holy Cross and several old Boston haunts. I will keep the extra copy I the collection because of the different texture of its paper.
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Identifier
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3272 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Schmitt, Hall & McCreary Company
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Minneapolis, MN
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Subject
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LB1573.7.N46 1937
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Aesop
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Type
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Book, Whole