Creighton University

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series, of which I now have thirteen.  The series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  This used copy is enclosed in a plastic dust-jacket with its own plastic odor.  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.  My versions now include Arabic, Italian, Bengali, Urdu, Swahili, French, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Tamil, Mandarin, Croatian, and Somali.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series that offers the same two fables in 33 different bilingual translations.  While I have hope at some flea market some day to get all thirty-three, I am coming close to that number by finding one after another in various places.  I believe that this is our twenty-eighth.  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series, of which we now have 21.  I hope at some flea market some day to get all thirty-three!  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.  This copy originally belonged to the public library in Schaumburg, IL  The title-page seems to have been lost in binding the library copy.

Here is a paperbound version of a book we already have hardbound.  This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  The size of the book's format allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series, of which I now have six.  The series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  FS is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.  This copy belonged to the Houston Public Library.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series, of which I now have seventeen.  The series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  This used copy is enclosed in a plastic dust-jacket.  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.  My versions now include Arabic, Italian, Bengali, Urdu, Swahili, French, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Tamil, Mandarin, Croatian, Farsi, and Somali.

I come ever closer to finding, one by one, all the versions of this book.  Here, having found editions reprinted in 2012 and in 2019, I find one of the original 2006 printings, in its nineteenth bilingual form of the thirty-three printed.  As I have written of others, this is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.

This is the third version I have found of this large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually. Earlier copies have combined English with Arabic and English with Urdu. Here English is combined with Swahili. The Swahili translator is not acknoweldged for either story. I hope at some flea market some day to get all thirty-three bilingual translations! FS is visually splendid! The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts. Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house." The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music. The second story here is "The King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable. Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him. In desperation, fox claims that he is ruler of the forest. Tiger roars with laughter. Fox answers that he will show tiger. "This I've got to see," tiger says. Fox gets tiger to walk behind him. Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect. Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the ruler of the forest. Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy. This story is also strongly illustrated.

This is the second version I have found of this large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually. Whereas the copy I found four years ago was Arabic and English, this copy is Urdu and English. I hope at some flea market some day to get all thirty-three bilingual translations! FS is visually splendid! The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts. Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house." The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music. The second story here is "The Ruler of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable. It was called "King of the Forest" in my earlier version. Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him. In desperation, fox claims that he is ruler of the forest. Tiger roars with laughter. Fox answers that he will show tiger. "This I've got to see," tiger says. Fox gets tiger to walk behind him. Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect. Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the ruler of the forest. Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy. This story is also strongly illustrated. I fear this copy is lacking its very first inside page. I am thus unsure of the Urdu translator of the first fable.

I believe that this is the 24th booklet in this series!  This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  I count thirty-three languages listed on the back cover.  Since I just ordered two more, it looks like we have only seven to go!  The size of the book's format allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.

I am getting a number of these Mantra Lingua bilingual "Fox Fables" paperbacks over time.  This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series.  The back cover's explanations do not make totally clear whether there is one portion of the series that presents many different fables.  It does make clear that a portion of the series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  I count thirty-three languages listed on the back cover.  Good for them!  I hope at some flea market someday to get all thirty-three!  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.  The cover of this copy is bent and peeling.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series, of which I now have eighteen.  The series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  This particular copy was formerly in the Helen Plum Library in Lombard, IL.  It has covers stiffened by plastic overlays skillfully applied.  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.  My versions now include Arabic, Italian, Bengali, Urdu, Swahili, French, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Tamil, Mandarin, Croatian, Farsi, Japanese, Somali, Turkish, Hindi, Tagalog, and Somali.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series, of which I now have five, including Arabic, Urdu, Swahili, and Polish.  The series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  FS is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series that presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  I count thirty-three languages listed on the back cover.  Good for them!  I hope at some flea market some day to get all thirty-three!  For now this is number 23!  FS is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series, of which I now have eleven.  The series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.  My versions now include Arabic, Italian, Bengali, Urdu, Swahili, French, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Tamil, and Somali.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series, of which I now have twelve.  The series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.  My versions now include Arabic, Italian, Bengali, Urdu, Swahili, French, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Tamil, Turkish, and Somali.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series, of which we now have 21.  I hope at some flea market some day to get all thirty-three!  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.

Here is a second good copy of this paperbound book, this one a 2012 edition..  The only changes from the 2006 edition are the date of the edition on the last page and several changes on the back cover.  There the first three paragraphs have the same text but are differently formatted.  It seems that several languages have been dropped, including Albanian and Croatian.  Mandarin seems to have been added.  Has the ISBN's last digit changed from a 7 to a 6?  I wrote the following then:  This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series.  The back cover's explanations do not make totally clear whether there is one portion of the series that presents many different fables.  It does make clear that a portion of the series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series that presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  I count thirty-three languages listed on the back cover.  Good for them!  I hope at some flea market some day to get all thirty-three!  For now this is number 22!  FS is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.  First published in 2006.

I believe that this is the 26th booklet in this series!  This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  I count thirty-three languages listed on the back cover.  The size of the book's format allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series, of which I now have seventeen.  The series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.  My versions now include Arabic, Italian, Bengali, Urdu, Swahili, French, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Tamil, Mandarin, Croatian, Farsi, Japanese, Somali, Turkish, Hindi, and Somali.

I am getting a number of these Mantra Lingua bilingual "Fox Fables" paperbacks over time.  This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series.  The back cover's explanations do not make totally clear whether there is one portion of the series that presents many different fables.  It does make clear that a portion of the series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  I count thirty-three languages listed on the back cover.  Good for them!  I hope at some flea market someday to get all thirty-three!  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.

I believe that this is the 25th booklet in this series!  This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  I count thirty-three languages listed on the back cover.  The size of the book's format allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.

I am getting a number of these Mantra Lingua bilingual "Fox Fables" paperbacks over time.  This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series.  The back cover's explanations do not make totally clear whether there is one portion of the series that presents many different fables.  It does make clear that a portion of the series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  I count thirty-three languages listed on the back cover.  Good for them!  I hope at some flea market someday to get all thirty-three!  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series, of which I now have thirteen.  The series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.  My versions now include Arabic, Italian, Bengali, Urdu, Swahili, French, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Tamil, Turkish, Japanese, and Somali.

This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually.  It belongs to a series, of which I now have twelve.  The series presents the two fables of this book by pairing English with a number of different languages, one for each book.  FC is visually splendid!  The size of the book allows Jago to create impressive illustrations like that of the crane unable to slurp up soup as well as three detailed specific views of her attempts.  Casey has the crane thank the fox for his kindness politely and add: "Please let me repay you -- come to dinner at my house."  The page after the story lists activities: writing, art, "maths," storytelling, and music.  The second story here is "King of the Forest," and it is labelled a Chinese fable.  Tiger comes upon fox and frightens him.  In desperation, fox claims that he is king of the forest.  Tiger roars with laughter.  Fox answers that he will show tiger.  "This I've got to see," tiger says.  Fox gets tiger to walk behind him.  Of course, every animal upon whom these two come runs away in respect.  Tiger is fooled and pays his respects to the king of the forest.  Fox bids him be gone and then, on the way home, has a good laugh over the whole ploy.  This story is also strongly illustrated.  My versions now include Arabic, Italian, Bengali, Urdu, Swahili, French, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Tamil, Mandarin, and Somali.