Stories from Panchatantra, Book IV
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1969
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Like Book II of the series (1966/78), this volume collects six good stories. The illustrations here rely on blue, brown, and a burnt red. Perhaps the best illustration shows the guest mosquito about to bite the king's neck (54-55); also good is the full cover picture of the chase after the blue jackal. There are two curious differences in the telling of standard stories here. The three thieves tell the man with the gift-goat that it is, respectively, a dog, a calf, and a donkey (18); I would have thought that the point of the story lies in the force of a repeated (not a varied) lie. And the mosquito finds in the king's bedroom a whole family of bugs that have been feeding on him undetected (49); Ramsay Wood's version speaks by contrast of The Bedbug and the Flea. The best story-twist comes in The Thief's Sacrifice (36). This book and its companion volume are among those things that may have wandered a long way to come into this collection.
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The Children's Book Trust
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2284 (Access ID)