Creighton University

This booklet is about 8¾" square.  Its 52 pages are unpaginated.  It is copyrighted by Sigal Adler and seems personally published.  Rhyming quatrains on each left-hand page respond to full-page colored illustrations on right-hand pages.  The North Wind rides a propeller driven bicycle through the sky.  This highly developed version of the fable begins with the sun telling the North Wind to leave.  The wager here seems at first to be about which is the stronger.  The bet is presented then in the poorer form: "Whoever makes that man undress / Will be the winner – nothing less!"  How does the wind think of making him undress?  As these lines suggest to me at least, the need to rhyme burdens the verse.  "Which one would have the better chance / To make the man remove his pants?"  Pants?!  That is new in this version!  In the midst of the North Wind's rage, the man pulls out a vest.  Then he puts on a scarf.  Then the man finds a "jacket, hidden from sight."  What is this contest about?  After the sun has time to shine, "he pulled off his clothes, leaving only … him!"  Moral?  "By sharing a sweet and loving fire / We can earn our heart's desire."

This booklet is about 8¾" square.  Its 40 pages are unpaginated.  It is copyrighted by Sigal Adler and seems personally published.  Rhyming quatrains on each left-hand page respond to full-page colored illustrations on right-hand pages.  There are some variations in this extended version of the story.  The two characters are childhood friends.  The female ant typically for this story throughout the summer, but then she takes a rest and thinks of music – as she sits by the fire in her ant-home.  It seems that the other little animals share the grasshopper's enjoyment of play from the view of them sitting by the pond, fishing, and drinking tea.  The grasshopper sees himself as an artist and states with bravado that he will learn what the winter will bring, but now it is more fun to sing.  In winter, the ant immediately welcomes him in and takes care of him.  The grasshopper learns his lesson and shares in the work.  The ant takes off for a week's vacation sipping a drink in a warmer climate!  Simple art, perhaps computer generated.

This booklet is about 8¾" square.  Its 40 pages are unpaginated.  It is copyrighted by Sigal Adler and seems personally published.  Rhyming quatrains on each left-hand page respond to full-page colored illustrations on right-hand pages.  In this version, the youngest of four brothers is at last eager to have his own flock, like his bigger brothers.  Adler sets up the story well by describing the attacks of the wolves from the mountains adjacent to the grazing fields – and the brothers' ability to work together to fend them off.  For some reason, the wolves here wear scarves!  Disappointed at the boredom then of the actual experience, the young brother calls for them to help as they had promised they would.  They scold him when he laughs at them.  He does try it a second time, and they become even angrier and threaten to tell their father.  That night around the family table they do not tell their father.  A few days later he is considering redoing his trick when he actually does see a wolf.  He goes to his brothers but they still will not help.  So he makes a stand himself against the wolf.  He fights courageously but the wolf bloodies him and carries off two sheep.  In the end he stands bleeding before his father and brothers, having learned his lesson.  The back cover offers a sub-title: "The High Price of Telling Lies."  Simple art, perhaps computer generated.