Clever and Foolish Tales for Children
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Walters, Maude Owens
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1941
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This book is true to its title. It tells, in engaging and enlightened fashion, humorous stories that show cleverness and folly. Most of the stories are six to eight pages long--a bit long for fables, I would say. Many build from traditional fables. Were I to have to categorize, I would probably subtitle the book Stories Developed from Fables and Other Forms of Literature. Some of the clearest borrowers from fable are The Jackal and the Crocodile (91); Jelly-Fish and the Monkey (131); The Valiant Chattee-Maker (143); Tit for Tat (181, about the camel and the jackal); The Illuminating Fig (187, about a watermelon and a fig that drops onto the philosopher's nose); The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal (241); and The Woman and the Tramp (249, about nail soup). This book is in fair condition.
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Dodd Mead & Company,
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5085 (Access ID)