Mini Treasure Chest of Great Fairy Tales III Book 4
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Holeinone, Peter
Issue Date
1991
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Book, Whole
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Cataloguing one book in this series a week ago led me to search out whether the whole series was available. I found a great offer, and now I have a set complete with its envelope-like container. I will include these duplicates a second time. As I wrote of this volume then, the back cover lists the six stories in this 16-page pamphlet: "The Three Wishes"; "The Hole that Was Too Narrow"; "The Princess and the Pea"; "The Hare and the Tortoise"; "The Fox and the Grapes"; and "The Elves and the Shoemaker." "The Three Wishes" ends with the couple happier and better reconciled than in some versions I have seen. "The Hole that Was Too Narrow" features a stoat who, sick with hunger, discovers a tavern with a crack in the wall. He widens the crack and slithers through. The pantry he finds fulfills his wildest dreams! He keeps eating up until the time when a person enters the pantry and seizes him as he is stuck going through his old hole. He wishes he were again thin and starving! "The Hare and the Tortoise" is carefully told. The hare naps at the starting line and again after sampling some cabbages. The tortoise meantime is halfway through the course. The hare awakens when the tortoise is a yard from the finishing post. FG offers an elaborate prelude. This fox has enjoyed lots of chickens but has been bested by their owner and nearly killed. Soon he is desperate for a meal. He looks at the grapes and says "Well, if there's nothing else…." The art and arrangement are familiar from Tormont's many other publications. The front cover's picture shows the princess on top of the many mattresses on top of the pea. This Book Four of the Third Series includes no bibliographical data. Apparently one consults Book 1 of a series for that information.
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Tormont Publications