Tales from the Panchatantra
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Clark, Leonard
Roy, Jeroo
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1979
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I like this little book. Its eleven stories, many of which are in Kalila and Dimna, are enhanced with very sharp black-and-white and especially nice white-and-black illustrations. Many of the stories have a different twist here. The Mice and the Elephants (7) has the latter first removing themselves at the request of the former, then being caught in nets, and finally being freed by the mice. The Deer's Story (11) gets confused, I believe, on the question of who is possessed and beaten. Right-mind and Wrong-Mind (15, this edition does well with proper names) set up their deal differently: they will see whether the hidden money grows or shrinks. They make two withdrawals together. In the end, the onion-thief (21) goes through all three possible punishments; that is part of the story's irony, first clear to me here. The mouse himself tells his own story about the way Big-Rump, the guest, put an end to his stealing from Hairy-Ear the monk (27). The Heron and the Crab (37) is told less well than elsewhere. TT's illustration gets a record for the longest pole (44-45). The Monkey and the Crocodile (47) has some strange further episodes added at the end. The same happens in The Loyal Mungoose (59), where the woman puts the blame on the man.
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Evans Bros
Evans Brothers
Evans Brothers
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1984 (Access ID)