Fabulous Creatures and a Fabulous Bicycle/Fabeltiere und ein fabelhaftes Fahrrad

Abstract

Children tell fables: Four price [sic] winning stories is matched on the cover by Kinder fabulieren: Vier preisgekrönte Geschichten. From reading one and a half of the stories, I can say that they are Geschichten but not fables. There is plenty of magic at work in them. The first is a charming story of a class of students who ride a 31-seater bicycle and end up in France (and their teacher in America) in a rather wild travelogue. I also tried The Aildoors (53), which has two children transformed for a day into cats. The four stories came from a 1973 competition sponsored by The Times (of London, I presume) to create new stories for children. Many of the stories in a very popular competition came from children. Four of those are presented here. The other two are The Unicorn Stone and The Dragon's Egg. That I have two copies of this book, ordered within two months of each other, is testimony to some disorganization on my part!