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Title
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en_US
When the Animals Could Talk: Fables
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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en_US
Ivan Franko, translated by Mary Skrypnyk
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Creator
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Franko, Ivan
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Contributor
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en_US
Kryha, Yuli
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Date
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2016-01-25T15:19:17Z
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en_US
1989-07
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en_US
1984
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T15:19:17Z
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Date Issued
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1984
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Abstract
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A good book with delightful Ukrainian illustrations. The Vixen and the Crane (14, with the same Skrypnyk version as the 1986 booklet of that title) is straight Aesop. The Hedgehog and the Rabbit (24) uses furrows to tell the story well; the rabbit dies on the seventy-fourth try at beating the hedgehog! Others, heavy on vixen-stories, have lots of common folktale motifs: the donkey invites a look at his hoof. The bear sees himself in the well and gets scared. Show me how you got him into the bag. I hate my own tail. The donkey catches birds on his nose by playing dead (6). The Wolf As a Reeve (32) is excellent. The closing fable about fables has a nationalistic note about preserving the Ukrainian language.
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Identifier
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en_US
732 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Dnipro Publishers
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Kyiv
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Subject
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PG3948.F7 W4 1984
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Collection
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole