Stories from Panchatantra
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Shivkumar, K.
Vyas, Anil
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1979
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This large-format children's book offers some twenty-eight well-told stories with a variety of multi-colored and two-colored illustrations. The story versions and the illustrations follow the patterns set in the series Stories from Panchatantra from Children's Book Trust. The stories even follow in exactly the same order as they do in the three (of five?) of these booklets that I have. The text of The King's Choice (174), is not the same verbatim as Shivkumar's text in his stand-alone booklet in 1971, but it follows the same story line. (Note that this 1971 The King's Choice by Parents' Magazine Press acknowledges Children's Book Trust's copyright on the text.) Thus this version, like the 1971 publication, brings a happy ending to the sad story of the camel's self-sacrifice. The king stops the crow, fox, and leopard from pouncing on the camel just after he has offered himself. Instead, King Lion announces that he will eat all four in the order in which they have offered themselves. When the other three flee, the lion offers the camel his lifelong friendship. Among the helpful illustrations in this book is that of the crocodile weeping underwater (15). The art has a slightly psychedelic cast and coloration. Because I am well acquainted with Kalilah and Dimna, my eye falls here on the stories that are not included there. Thus I enjoy particularly The Musical Donkey (38), The Girl Who Married a Snake (53), The Lion-Makers (78), The Jackal Who Killed No Elephants (82), A Wise Old Bird (143), and The Thief's Sacrifice (150). Here it is an iron beam that one friend leaves with another (59); it is all he has left after raising cash for his travels. And here the crow carries the mouse on his back in The Four Friends (121). In The Brahmin and the Goat (137), the three robbers claim that they see different animals on the Brahmin's shoulders: a dog, a dead calf, and a donkey.
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Children's Book Trust
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3807 (Access ID)