Wie die Tiere auf Reisen gingen
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Redlich, Alex
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1908
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There are 61 pages of fables here, without a T of C. They are organized into four chapters: Wie die Tiere das Haus verliessen (5), Die Wanderfahrt der Maus Goldreich (14), Hennings, des Hahns, Erlebnisse und der Krieg der Vögel (34), and Die Erlebnisse des Ochsen Lebhaft und die Heimkehr (53). There are frequent illustrations, both part-page and full, in black-and-white, two-color, and three-color formats. It all starts when the dog, who has wandered the nearby forest, starts to tell enthralling tales to the farmyard animals. Soon the dog and the rooster, hungry and afraid, set off into the woods to find a better life. There are no fables in the first section. In fact, the first recognizable fable comes up when Goldreich the mouse is ready to crawl into a mole's hole. The mole warns him that there is a hedgehog inside--and tells the tale of the hedgehog moving in and making life so hard for him that he has moved out of his own hole. Next Goldreich meets a frog, and we are into another fable as he asks the frog how he can get across the water. In this version, the frog carries the mouse on his back and the mouse escapes from the hawk's nest. Soon we touch on stories from the Panchatantra, including The Jackal and the Deer, in which the former betrays the latter but ends up getting killed in his stead, and a story of Goldreich being asked to free a group of pigeons caught in a net. In fact, stories from the Panchatantra tradition seem to predominate. This book is a lovely creative effort. I think it somewhat unusual that this German children's book from the early 1900's gives a date of publication.
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Akademischer Verlag
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5857 (Access ID)