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Title
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City Mouse & Country Mouse: A Classic Fairy Tale
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Abbeville Classic Fairy Tales
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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First edition
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Translated by Molly Stevens
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Creator
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Aesop
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Contributor
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Chatellard, Isabelle
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:54:12Z
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2008-06
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2007
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:54:12Z
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Date Issued
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2007
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Abstract
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This book is almost identical with an edition that Abbeville did in The Little Pebbles series in 1999. Let me start by noting the differences. First, this edition belongs to a different series, Abbeville Classic Fairy Tales. Secondly, it comes in a boxed set with three other books. The box is titled Animal Fables, and it contains this book and Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Three Little Pigs. None of the latter three seem to me to be fables! All three of these books were earlier in The Little Pebbles series. Thirdly, this book, like the other three, is now printed not in France but in China. Fourthly, the book now has a publication date, with the other three books, of 2007. Fifthly, the publisher now lists offices only in New York and London; Paris has dropped. Sixthly, the text of the fable, apparently identical, has been newly typeset in larger print. Let me repeat the comments I made about the 1999 book. First published in 1998 in French by Editions Nathan in Paris. Delightful and imaginative art work, starting from the lawn chairs in which we first see the mice, lawn chairs apparently growing out of the tops of stalks of wheat. The city visit is a week later and takes place in the house of a rich shopkeeper. The mice are doing their feasting on the bottom shelf of the kitchen cupboard when they are interrupted by the cook. Soon they are on the top shelf when the cat interrupts them. Next they head for the basement where the country mouse almost falls for a mouse trap. That trap is the last straw, and the country mouse heads politely for home. He lives happily ever after in the fields. Eight small versions of the illustrations are presented at the end with the challenge to put them back in the right order. A very nice little book with very stiff covers.
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Identifier
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9780789209511 (hbk.)
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6369 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Abbeville Publishing Group
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Enfield
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Subject
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PZ8.2.A535 2007
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole