Der Wettlauf zwischen dem Hasen und dem Igel.

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I picked this book up largely because of the lovely old hedgehog illustrations, not the least of them showing the mother washing her two very humanlike kids in the bathtub. This version has the hare doing seventy-three laps and then dying during the seventy-fourth! And all the time he could not distinguish between one hedgehog wearing a babushka and one not wearing a bubushka!