Creighton University

Each of eight fables gets either a page or a two-page spread in this fragile ephemeral album made for children.  Its covers are lacking.  I presume that this is the album that started the series which grew to at least four.  The T of C for this volume occurs on its title-page.  This page features a country scene in which many fables are presented together.  I recognize immediately OR and 2P.  As is true in Volumes 2 and 4 of the series, I need to read the individual stories inside before I can place the many characters here.  Among the stories are LM; AD; GA; and "The Cat, Weasel and Rabbit."  Particularly strong in presentation are the explosion in 2P and the anthropomorphosis of the tree in OR.  The mouse in "The Rooster, the Cat, and the Mouse" encounters the two new beasts on the platform of a train station.  He runs back home with his suitcase.  The jay that borrowed feathers ends up homeless, sitting under a bridge along the river.  Fox and his readers had fun here!  Two staples.  10½" x 8".

Each of eight fables gets either a page or a two-page spread in this fragile ephemeral album made for children.  Its back cover advertises the first two volumes in the series, as the fourth volume advertised four.  The T of C for this volume occurs on its last page, with a hunter fox relaxing and smelling a flower.  All eight fables here include the fox, and he usually drives a car.  The first page offers a cartoon of a complex rural scene.  I can make out portrayals of a fox and goat in a well, and of a hunting fox walking away from a singing crow.  Again, I had to read the fables as presented here to recognize further fables presented on this title-page.  One of them, UP, may tend to confuse the reader in conjunction with FC.  The front cover of this monochrome dark blue booklet offers a blue and green version of FC with the fox driving a car.  For each fable, one sees La Fontaine's text and a series of cartoon panels with one or two simple prose statements.  The fox and goat go into the well together.  I had not realized that this is La Fontaine's version.  In FG, the fox is leaping from the roof of his convertible car.  Again, this version reminded me that in La Fontaine's version of "The Fox and the Bust," there is a less critical ass also involved.  "The Fox, the Wolf, and the Horse" is perhaps less known.  The fox leads the wolf to the new neighbor, the horse, and asks his name.  The wise horse says that it is inscribed on his hoof.  The rest you can guess from here.  Fox and his readers had fun here!  10½" x 8".

Each of eight fables gets either a page or a two-page spread in this fragile ephemeral album made for children.  The first page offers a T of C and a cartoon of a riotous scene on a mountain road.  I had to read the fables as presented here to recognize the fables presented on this title-page.  The front cover of this monochrome brown booklet offers a bright multi-colored version of a similar highway scene.  At the pamphlet's other end, the two travelers run across a landscape shaped like a bearskin.  For each fable, one sees La Fontaine's text and a series of cartoon panels with one or two simple prose statements.  The milkmaid slips on a banana peel as she fantasizes her newly bought calf jumping in the midst of the herd.  The laborer's sons end up toasting "Travail."  The wind and sun In WS have human bodies.  "Le coche et la mouche" uses a bus rather than a horse-drawn coach and is the center of attention on the title-page.  The wise man who gets his revenge on an idiot turns out to be a rich financier driven around by two black men.  Fox and his readers had fun here!  10½" x 8".