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Hagboldt, Peter
Leopold, Werner F.
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1957
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This edition updates Hagboldt's original second book of the series. The series has changed names from The Heath-Chicago German Series to Graded German Readers: Original Series Revised. The cover has moved from a sedate blue canvas to a lively interaction of brown figures against a cream background. The script has changed from Gothic to Roman. There is a pleasant addition of simple but spirited cartoon-like designs by Susan Perl. A vocabulary has been added at the back. I see no change in the texts themselves. I notice only now that the very first fable is a variation of OF that puts the frog with a lion instead of an ox. I will include--and, where necessary, edit--my comments here from the earlier edition, especially on the unusual last four fables. The booklet contains thirty fables on some 35 pages, with footnotes along the way and vocabulary exercises at the end based on sequential groups of fables. The last few fables seem to deviate from or move beyond traditional Aesopic material. Thus the shepherd asks the nightingale to sing; she answers Do you not hear the loud frogs?! Yes, he answers, but ony because I do not hear you (33). The life of Aesop's play on the tongue as the best and worst of things becomes a fable here to the same effect (33). Two dogs pledge true friendship and even give each other their hand on the matter, until a piece of meat is thrown in front of the two of them (34). One ass serves as servant of the lion and goes with him through the forest. A fellow ass greets him as brother, only to hear back Get out of the way. I do not know you (35). After the fables there is a set of riddles (35-37).
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D.C. Heath and Company
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5669 (Access ID)