Eleven Fables from Aesop (27)

Abstract

This paper-covered pamphlet contains eleven fables for first graders. The Instructor Literature Series contained 306 volumes at this time. The original price was $.10 or less. The fables are told very simply. In LM the mice were playing hide-and-seek on the lion's back. The illustrations are mostly very primitive. One (27) is formed out of a capital. The last--for The Fox and the Crab --features a photograph of the sea. This copy has a familiar cover illustration of LM; the one inside for LM (5) is part traditional and part primitive palm trees! The best of the illustrations may be the view of the departing mouse's back (26). See the listing under the same year and title but bound in limp cloth with the series number 27C. And see 1905 and 1921 for two of the other first-grade readers in this series. Both of this cover is different from all of those; though the two Wonderland Books copies are matched in design, they differ in color.