Creighton University

This set of six books joins just three other volumes in our collection printed in Peru.  There are four parts to this 112-page 6" x 8" paperback.  Each has its own list of coming fables.  All of them come together in a final T of C.  There is at least one lively cartoon illustration for each fable, apt for a quick view in a slide lecture.  The cover illustration of FC is typical.  The lazy fox leans against the tree in his tank-top and reaches out a paw to catch the wedge of Swiss cheese.  Another well-illustrated fable is the last, "The Lion and the Rabbit" (109-110).  As the cover advertises, there are here 92 fables, each with a rhymed couplet moral.  Each fable has a set of three questions titled "Comprension lectora."  Good questions!  I am surprised by the fable and moral on 17, concluding "Coins are the tears of the rich."  Each section starts with a full-page illustration.  Perhaps the best of the four shows the goatherd with the goat whose horn has been broken (59).  "The Monkey Mother" is graphically presented, with the despised child hanging onto her tail (23).  The illustration for "The Drunk and His Wife" (39) is singular!  She wears a mask to try to scare him!  I seem to see a slight shift in some stories from the traditional version.  Thus "Death and the Woodman" becomes "Death and the Failed Businessman" (89).

This set of six books joins just three other volumes in our collection printed in Peru.  There are four parts to this 112-page 6" x 8" paperback.  Each has its own list of coming fables.  All of them come together in a final T of C.  There is at least one lively cartoon illustration for each fable, apt for a quick view in a slide lecture.  The cover illustration of FG is typical.  Here a crow mocks the female fox for not reaching the grapes.  As the cover advertises, there are here 92 fables, each with a rhymed couplet moral.  Each fable has a set of three questions titled "Comprension lectora."  Hercules is quite demonstrative with the cart-driver on 19!  In this version, the schoolmaster actually throws an innertube to the drowning pupil (21).  The text for "Sick Man and Doctor" is good, with the doctor's repeated comment "Eso está bien" (48).  WL (68) is typical for this book's illustrations; it emphasizes all the right things, including size and attitude.  The cartoon style of illustrations here sets the booklet up well for presenting "The Old Woman and the Doctor" (74).  Do not miss the mouse approaching the oyster on 97!

This set of six books joins just three other volumes in our collection printed in Peru.  There are four parts to this 112-page 6" x 8" paperback.  Each has its own list of coming fables.  All of them come together in a final T of C.  There is at least one lively cartoon illustration for each fable, apt for a quick view in a slide lecture.  The cover illustration has the wolf and fox arguing before the monkey judge.  This is also the lead fable in the first section, and thus there are three lively illustrations of this fable.  OF does not involve the death of some frogs before a mother frog begins expanding herself (25).  "The Horse and the Ass" (36) gets the dimensions and attitudes of the two main actors right.  Well done!  On 38, we get an unusually believable act of playing dead by the clever cat.  The lion in love clips his own nails with a scissors (62).  TB is delightfully illustrated (79)!  Part of the accomplishment of this whole series is the way the editors, artist, and writer accommodate almost all the fables to be one to a page.  The last of the 23 fables in each segment seems to be a two-page fable.

This set of six books joins just three other volumes in our collection printed in Peru.  There are four parts to this 112-page 6" x 8" paperback.  Each has its own list of coming fables.  All of them come together in a final T of C.  There is at least one lively cartoon illustration for each fable, apt for a quick view in a slide lecture.  The cover illustration has a shapely goddess offering the honest woodman two axes.  In the first fable she will actually give him three!  The drowning boy is lectured not by a schoolmaster but by a simple passerby (29).  A favorite of mine here is at the start of the third part, and so it has two illustrations: the crow tries to lift a ram (59-60).  A typically good illustration has the lion demanding the wolf's prey, a lamb.  The wolf cries "Unfair!"  "I suppose you got the lamb fairly?" asks the lion (80).

This set of six books joins just three other volumes in our collection printed in Peru.  There are four parts to this 112-page 6" x 8" paperback.  Each has its own list of coming fables.  All of them come together in a final T of C.  There is at least one lively cartoon illustration for each fable, apt for a quick view in a slide lecture.  The cover illustration has two mules tied together and pulling in opposite directions.  Since this fable begins the first part, it has a second and third illustration, showing first how they reflect and then how they happily eat side by side.  "The Two Goats" has a lively image of the two falling from their plank on 28.  An engaging image opens the fourth part: a friendly crocodile invites the dog to come further into the river (85).  "The Eagle, the Turtle, and the Crow" is well presented in both image and text (99).  Part of the accomplishment of this whole series is the way the editors, artist, and writer accommodate almost all the fables to be one to a page.  The last of the 23 fables in each segment seems to be a two-page fable.

This set of six books joins just three other volumes in our collection printed in Peru.  There are four parts to this 112-page 6" x 8" paperback.  Each has its own list of coming fables.  All of them come together in a final T of C.  There is at least one lively cartoon illustration for each fable, apt for a quick view in a slide lecture.  As it happens, in this issue the first three fables offer some of the most intriguing and engaging presentations.  The cover illustration is the same as the image introducing the first of the four parts: a lively young mouse explains his encounter with a cat and a rooster to a perplexed mother mouse.  Well done!  On 10, the leisurely cat with chin in hand, lies on the ground looking up at two sparring sparrows.  The fable even before its announced moral philosophizes "In family matters third parties should not mediate."  The gesture of the meal-carrying dog is a very good one on 11 as he, outnumbered, says to his fellow dogs "Let's all eat like good friends."  Part of the accomplishment of this whole series is the way the editors, artist, and writer accommodate almost all the fables to be one to a page.  The last of the 23 fables in each segment seems to be a two-page fable.