Chinese Fairy Tales
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Chang, Isabelle C.
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1968
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Twenty-six stories with bold red and black designs. The best art may be 38-39's collection of animals and the good TT on 43. There are many good fables here. In The Tiger's Teacher (30), the cat does not teach the tiger her one last trick, how to climb a tree. Some of the fables are traditional, but add unusual details. Thus Thud (38) has many bunnies experiencing the original thud that they take to be the end of the world. In TT (42), the tortoise talks to claim falsely that the idea was his. In The Pretender (66), there is an indigo fox. The Revenge of the Rabbit (44) is Kalila and Dimna's The Lion and the Hare. Other good fables are Story from Tibet (48), where the corrupt guard gets half of the reward ; The Wisdom of the Water Buffalo (53), who instead of duelling lets the tiger bite him three times if he may then butt three times; and The Sparrow and the Phoenix (70) about getting indirect revenge. There is a misprint on 22: IV should be VI.
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Schocken Books
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1854 (Access ID)