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1971 Highlights for Children. May 1971. Volume 26, Number 6. $1.50 at Schroeder’s, Milwaukee, August, '96.

This edition contains "The Donkey and His Shadow: An Old Fable" (13). There is one good paragraph of text and a simple black-and-yellow illustration. In the maze that is Schroeder’s, I consider this a find!

1976 Highlights for Children, November, 1976.  Magazine.  Columbus, OH: Volume 31, Number 9.  Nov., 1976:  Gift of Lois Carlson, Dec., '76.

This 8.5"  x 11" magazine includes "A Tall Tale: The Boasting Traveler" as part of "For Wee Folks" (9).  It is not acknowledged as a fable, but it does include the telltale specific reference to Rhodes.  There is no illustration for this fable here.

1976 Highlights for Children, December, 1976.  Magazine.  Columbus, OH: Volume 31, Number 9.  Nov., 1976:  Gift of Lois Carlson, Dec., '76.

This 8.5"  x 11" magazine includes "An Old Fable" (TB) retold well by Martha Carpenter.  There is no illustration for this fable here.   Only one who has plowed through stacks of old magazines can know the patience and perseverance it takes to make a find like this!

1978 Highlights for Children. Volume 33, Number 6. June-July, 1976. Columbus, OH: Highlights for Children, Inc. Gift of Linda Schlafer, June, '93.

This 8.5" x 11" magazine includes "The Lion and the Crocodile: An Old Fable" retold well by Glennda Sherman. The illustration is by Katharine Dodge. I do not remember coming on this fable elsewhere. The lion and the crocodile agree to be kings--and to acknowledge the other as king--in their different realms. There is a nice, small-print moral (wisdom is power) underneath the illustration. Only one who has plowed through stacks of old magazines can know the patience and perseverance it takes to make a find like this!

1992 Highlights for Children. November 1992. Volume 47, Number 10, Issue No. 494. $1 at Schroeder, August, '96. Extra copy a gift of Linda Ohri, April, '96.

This edition of this popular children's magazine contains "The Crow at the Well" (21). The telling is good and traditional, except, I think, for the placement at a well. The story is identified as based on a fable by Aesop, retold by Jean K. Potratz, and illustrated by Jan Pyk. I had checked this magazine in used-book stores frequently and given up on the possibility that it would ever contain a fable. I will write to ask them if they have done others. (They did not answer.)

1994 Highlights for Children. August 1994. Volume 49, Number 8, Issue No. 514. $1 at Schroeder’s, Milwaukee, August, '96.

This edition of this magazine contains FC (25), retold (as was "The Crow at the Well" in 1992) by Jean K. Potratz. The telling is good and traditional; it makes effective use of a jar for the crane’s offering. Highlights has still not responded to my letter, so I am very happy to have found this fable—and one other from 1971—on my own. The illustration by Susanne DeMarco nicely contrasts the two invitations, both of which mention soup.

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