Flip Flap Fables
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Grant, Louis F
Kellogg, Frank E.
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1907
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A curious opening Listen statement claims that these fables were conceived before the lights had been switched upon George Ade and other modern fable makers. In fact, the stories here are somewhere between Ade and Thurber: full of slang, popular, cynical, funny. I like them. Like Ade, Kellogg likes capital letters for many words. Like Thurber's losing turtle, the turtle here believed the TH story and needed two years and eleven months to lose! Many of these fables build off of Aesop. Among the best: The Wolf and the Peacock (9, a replay of FC with the bird much smarter now), The Old Lion and the Tiger (14), TH (29), The Man and the Jackass (37), GA (54), The Great Detective Who Unearthed Things (65), The Mosquito and the Bedbug (70), The Wise Old Judge and the Seventeen Brindle Steers (80), and How the Animals Chose Their King (88). Included in the book is a strange bookmark featuring a newspaper article of a presumed relative of the book's former owner and his boasting about his restaurant. The clever descendant/relative made this article into a fable bookmark and it still sits facing 20. There is one design around the title of each fable.
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G. W. Dillingham
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1839 (Access ID)