Creighton University

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread across the two pages.  Most dramatic here in FK is the last image of the stork's aggressive arrival in the pond.  "Endless requirements bring complications."  I bet "requirements" here might best be "asking."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread across the two pages.  Most dramatic here is the hare's take-off at the pamphlet's centerfold.  "Over confidence loose the race."  The two errors here are unusual so far for these well-executed pamphlets.

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread across the two pages.  The artist here wisely situates the fable in a desert.  The strongest image may occur at the centerfold, as the crow strains in vain to overturn the pitcher.  "Cleverness shows the way to success."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread across the two pages.  This version of BW departs from most traditional versions in two dramatic ways.  First, the boy tells the lie only once.  On the following day, a group of wolves comes.  The artist's best work here is on the faces of the villagers, both running to respond to the first request and disregarding the second request.  "Finally the wolves ate all the sheep."  Except for isolated grammatical and idiomatic uses, this is a strong production!

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread across the two pages.  The artist's best work here is, I think, on the fox's face.  The first images display a malevolent toothy smile.  The last image has a sweating fox with tongue hanging out of an almost toothless mouth.  "Harm set, harm get" does not resonate, I think, with contemporary American English as a moral.

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread across the two pages.  The artist's best work here is, I think, on the pamphlet's centerfold.  Are those teeth being knocked out of the mouse's mouth?  The mouse's response is good: "I may be able to help you one day."  "Kindness is repaid in time of difficulties."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread across the two pages.  The grasshopper sports a bow tie and plays a guitar, while the ants have each some kind of decoration around their antennae.  The grasshopper is described as lazy.  The ants give him some food, and the "The grasshopper made up his mind to work hard the next summer."  "Laziness brings problems."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread across the two pages.  This booklet, among all in this group, gets my prize for the most dramatic cover illustration!  This poor dog with a steak in his mouth is almost beside himself!  The depiction of the dog's passion is strong throughout this visual presentation.  This text wisely bypasses the question of where the dog got this piece of meat.  "Grasp all, lose all."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread across the two pages.  This female crow has a piece of meat.  How she got it is wisely left aside.  Though the illustration style is simple, the artist does particularly well with the crow's self-satisfaction.  "Never trust flattery."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread across the two pages.  This rotund mother frog sees the cow arriving at the pond and asks her children who is bigger.  "The cow."  "No matter how she inflated, her babies still repeated the same answer."  The artist does an excellent job with the gestures of the baby frogs, who are blown around by the mother's explosion.  "Better know your own limitation."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread across the two pages.  In this version, "The crow who wanted to be a peacock has had to live alone ever since."  In a rare one-page illustration, the spurned crows close their eyes to their former comrade.  "One should be content with what one has and should not compare oneself to others."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread regularly across the two pages.  This version does not get specific about how "the lion tried to stir up trouble among the oxen to make them quarrel among themselves."  The last pair of pages has the lion suitably aggressive.  "Lack of unity will cause damage both to individuals and to the community."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread regularly across the two pages.  The artist does particularly well here with eyes, especially the "sick" lion's one eye out for whoever might visit him.  This version may have trouble at this point: "Other animals fell for his trick.  They were concerned about him, and decided to take turns visiting him until he got better."  I hope Aesopic animals are smarter than that!  "Wisdom can save you from danger."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread regularly across the two pages.  A new development here is that one frog had a quarrel with a mouse and instigated the other frogs to hate the mice.  The artist does a good job with the frogs' faces in this deliberation.  It comes to battle between the two groups, and specifically between "the top frog and the head mouse."  A hawk snatches one of the two in either claw.  There is no tying up here of one animal to the other.  "Quarrelling gives others the opportunity to take advantage of you."  Facial expressions are well rendered throughout.

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread regularly across the two pages.  This version does not get specific with the wolf's claims against the lamb after the first claim of muddying the water.  The last illustration is highly dramatic, as is the textual ending.  "The bully always tries to find fault with other people."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread regularly across the two pages.  This may be the best illustrated pamphlet in the whole series.  The artist presents multiple views of the rickety rope bridge, starting with the cover's view from the goat on one ridge across to the other.  The story has the bridge fall apart.  The facial expressions of the two goats are fine.  Their clash has bits of horn flying.  "Stubbornness and being self-centered lead to trouble."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread regularly across the two pages.  In this version, one smart dog educates the others that the bell is not, as the wearer claims, a sign of loving care but a warning that this dog likes to bite people.  Then the dogs no longer pay attention to the belled dog.  The artist rightly pays attention to dogs' teeth.  "Do not admire people because of what you see on the outside.  Look at what they actually do or their deeds."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread regularly across the two pages.  After the first fall while crossing the stream, the donkey does it every time they have to cross -- many times, until the merchant figures out what is happening.  Then, in this version, the merchant loads the donkey with cotton.  After this trip, "The donkey never dared try his tricks ever again."  In the last image, the artist does a good job with the water streaming from the cotton-packs and the sweat streaming from the donkey himself.  "Deceitful people get bad results in the end."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread regularly across the two pages.  The choice of an angel as the woodcutters' helper is curious in the cross-cultural world out of which this series of booklets comes.  In ancient fables it was generally Mercury or -- in Greek -- Hermes.  The facial expressions of the second woodcutter and the angel on the last two pages are particularly well done.  "Honesty will win trust and praise."

Here is one of a set of 20 pamphlets, apparently sold generally in two sets.  Eight slick, shiny pages with lively illustrations after a title-page.  The pages feel almost plastic, with two curved corners.  Each cover has a "BookWorld" logo in the upper left and an "I can read" symbol proper to the booklet in the upper right.  Interior illustrations spread regularly across the two pages.  The bat at first watches from afar and does not want to take sides when the birds and the beasts quarrel.  When the beasts win, he is on their side.  When the birds win, the bat changes sides.  The two sides alternate many times over, with the bat always taking the side of the winner.  The two sides together drive the bat out of the woods.  The bat is so ashamed that he comes out only at night.  The artist's best depiction here is of the birds' first counterattack.  "Insincerity drives your friends away."