The Oak and the Reed
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Abstract
This series uses the same Cosby framework as the earlier Lorimar tape but presents only one interrupted fable and adds a cartoon at the end. The animated introduction to the fable-world, with Nutcracker Suite music but no words, is over eight minutes long, while the fable takes about three minutes. The animated introduction here presents the bad-guy oak, the friendly reed who rescues a falling chick, and waterbugs working on a dam and defending themselves with ingenious animal artillery against a dive-bombing and fire-bombing bird. The fable itself is done in poetry.