The Big Book of Animal Stories
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Green, Margaret
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1961
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This book is of a piece with the later Big Book of Animal Fables by the same author and illustrator. The original publisher of both was Ueberreuter in Vienna. This book was published in Great Britain, apparently at the same time as this edition, by Dobson Books. Of the twenty-three stories here on some 240 pages, several are fables. The Foolish Peacock (137) is new to me and delightful. The peacock insists on a high-sounding name, and the choice does not help him. The two-page colored illustration on 138-9 is one of Grabianski's best. The Crab and the Crane (159) is close enough to the Kalila and Dimna story to make me wonder if it is not a descendant. This story is labeled as Egyptian. Two Frogs from Japan (202) is the familiar old story of letting the place from which you have come be the pattern for understanding anything new. Clever Brother Hare (206) involves not offering oneself as a sacrifice to King Lion but rather preparing a warm meal for him. Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed (224) is the shortest of these stories, fitting on one page. This version of A Bridegroom for Miss Mouse (236) by Maung Htin Aung involves two phases I am not used to: the Mountain passes the eager parents on to the Bull, who sharpens his horns against the mountain. The Bull in turn passes them to the Rope, and the Rope to the Mouse.
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Franklin Watts, Inc.
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3433 (Access ID)