The Fable of Fat Fanny or What Could Happen to You If You Don't Stick to Your Diet!
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Norman, Dean
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1960
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This is a small hardbound book of twenty pages about 4¼ x 4¾. It is inscribed To Barry From a secret admirer. The title-page changes the sub-title to: If you have trouble sticking to your diet, maybe this story will give you inspiration. Fat Fanny starts as an egg on a blade of grass. The egg hatches and starts eating. Soon she is a big fat centipede-like blob. Others tease her, saying things like Your mother must have been a dirigible. Fanny decides on a crash diet and spins herself into a cocoon. When Fat Fanny hatches out of her cocoon, she is a gorgeous butterfly. The cartoon here may be the only X-rated cartoon of a butterfly that I have seen! I never thought of a butterfly's body as having breasts! Here comes the shock of this little book. When one turns the page, one reads Then a bird ate her. Moral: Better to eat like a bird than to be eaten by one. I notice that there is a different -- updated? -- version of this booklet now for sale on the web with a date of 1974. It has a different cover. We will see if I get it.
I originally guessed at a publication date of 1960 for this book and was happily corrected by the author and artist, who wrote and illustrated the book in 1971 and so guessed at a publication date of 1972. How nice of Mr. Norman to get in touch with us! His email noted that the publisher changed the cover and nothing else to republish it in 1974. We also have that version in the collection. As I originally wrote, this is a small hardbound book of twenty pages about 4¼" x 4¾". It is inscribed "To Barry From a secret admirer." The title-page changes the sub-title to: "If you have trouble sticking to your diet, maybe this story will give you inspiration." Fat Fanny starts as an egg on a blade of grass. The egg hatches and starts eating. Soon she is a big fat centipede-like blob. Others tease her, saying things like "Your mother must have been a dirigible." Fanny decides on a crash diet and spins herself into a cocoon. When Fat Fanny hatches out of her cocoon, she is a gorgeous butterfly. The cartoon here may be the only X-rated cartoon of a butterfly that I have seen! I never thought of a butterfly's body as having breasts! Here comes the shock of this little book. When one turns the page, one reads "Then a bird ate her." "Moral: Better to eat like a bird than to be eaten by one."
I originally guessed at a publication date of 1960 for this book and was happily corrected by the author and artist, who wrote and illustrated the book in 1971 and so guessed at a publication date of 1972. How nice of Mr. Norman to get in touch with us! His email noted that the publisher changed the cover and nothing else to republish it in 1974. We also have that version in the collection. As I originally wrote, this is a small hardbound book of twenty pages about 4¼" x 4¾". It is inscribed "To Barry From a secret admirer." The title-page changes the sub-title to: "If you have trouble sticking to your diet, maybe this story will give you inspiration." Fat Fanny starts as an egg on a blade of grass. The egg hatches and starts eating. Soon she is a big fat centipede-like blob. Others tease her, saying things like "Your mother must have been a dirigible." Fanny decides on a crash diet and spins herself into a cocoon. When Fat Fanny hatches out of her cocoon, she is a gorgeous butterfly. The cartoon here may be the only X-rated cartoon of a butterfly that I have seen! I never thought of a butterfly's body as having breasts! Here comes the shock of this little book. When one turns the page, one reads "Then a bird ate her." "Moral: Better to eat like a bird than to be eaten by one."
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American Greetings
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7059 (Access ID)