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This is a large-format (11" x 9 1/4") landscape book presenting two fables: LM and "The Hare's Revenge."  The illustrations seem to use about three or four colors, typically tan, brown, pink, and green.  LM uses the green effectively for the lion's eyes.  The mouse promises when caught to be the lion's friend forever.  "Who knows, one day I might even save your life."  The mouse needs apparently almost a full twenty-four hours to gnaw the lion free from his net.  "The Hare's Revenge" is labeled as a Malaysian fable, but its main "trick" is well known in "Panchatantra" and KD circles.  Here there is no agreement of all the animals to supply the lion with food.  Rather, hare has had to listen to the lion's boasting too often and can stand it no longer.  So he gets his revenge in the way the KD story follows, that is, by getting the lion jealous of a (fictive) lion who claims to be stronger.  The hare then leads the lion to the well where this supposed rival lives.  Here, in a fine illustration repeated on the cover, the lion's eyes are not green but reddish.  This version does not include the fictive rabbit captured by the fictive lion.  The final picture of the lion leaping into the well is particularly good.  There are suggestions for teachers for both fables on a page between the two fables.  The book is Talking Pen enabled.  This book is one of some eighteen bilingual editions combining other languages with English for these fables.  Unfortunately, they are a little on the expensive side!  Someday I may run into a whole group of them on sale. 

This is a large-format (11" x 9 1/4") landscape book presenting two fables: LM and "The Hare's Revenge."  The illustrations seem to use about three or four colors, typically tan, brown, pink, and green.  LM uses the green effectively for the lion's eyes.  The mouse promises when caught to be the lion's friend forever.  "Who knows, one day I might even save your life."  The mouse needs apparently almost a full twenty-four hours to gnaw the lion free from his net.  "The Hare's Revenge" is labeled as a Malaysian fable, but its main "trick" is well known in "Panchatantra" and KD circles.  Here there is no agreement of all the animals to supply the lion with food.  Rather, hare has had to listen to the lion's boasting too often and can stand it no longer.  So he gets his revenge in the way the KD story follows, that is, by getting the lion jealous of a (fictive) lion who claims to be stronger.  The hare then leads the lion to the well where this supposed rival lives.  Here, in a fine illustration repeated on the cover, the lion's eyes are not green but reddish.  This version does not include the fictive rabbit captured by the fictive lion.  The final picture of the lion leaping into the well is particularly good.  There are suggestions for teachers for both fables on a page between the two fables.  The book is Talking Pen enabled.  This book is one of some eighteen bilingual editions combining other languages with English for these fables.  Unfortunately, they are a little on the expensive side!  Someday I may run into a whole group of them on sale.  For now this is our ninth different language.

This is a large-format (11" x 9 1/4") landscape book presenting two fables: LM and "The Hare's Revenge" in Albanian and English.  The illustrations seem to use about three or four colors, typically tan, brown, pink, and green.  LM uses the green effectively for the lion's eyes.  The mouse promises when caught to be the lion's friend forever.  "Who knows, one day I might even save your life."  The mouse needs apparently almost a full twenty-four hours to gnaw the lion free from his net.  "The Hare's Revenge" is labeled as a Malaysian fable, but its main "trick" is well known in "Panchatantra" and KD circles.  Here there is no agreement of all the animals to supply the lion with food.  Rather, hare has had to listen to the lion's boasting too often and can stand it no longer.  So he gets his revenge in the way the KD story follows, that is, by getting the lion jealous of a (fictive) lion who claims to be stronger.  The hare then leads the lion to the well where this supposed rival lives.  Here, in a fine illustration repeated on the cover, the lion's eyes are not green but reddish.  This version does not include the fictive rabbit captured by the fictive lion.  The final picture of the lion leaping into the well is particularly good.  There are suggestions for teachers for both fables on a page between the two fables.  The book is Talking Pen enabled.  This book is one of some eighteen bilingual editions combining other languages with English for these fables.  Unfortunately, they are a little on the expensive side!  I now have simplified Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, and Albanian with Tamil and Bengali on the way.

Here is a yet another bilingual edition of Ormerod's Lion Fables, joining those offering French and simplified Chinese to accompany their English.  As I wrote there, this is a large-format (11" x 9¼") landscape book presenting two fables: LM and "The Hare's Revenge."  The illustrations seem to use about three or four colors, typically tan, brown, pink, and green.  LM uses the green effectively for the lion's eyes.  The mouse promises when caught to be the lion's friend forever.  "Who knows, one day I might even save your life."  The mouse needs apparently almost a full twenty-four hours to gnaw the lion free from his net.  "The Hare's Revenge" is labeled as a Malaysian fable, but its main "trick" is well known in "Panchatantra" and KD circles.  Here there is no agreement of all the animals to supply the lion with food.  Rather, hare has had to listen to the lion's boasting too often and can stand it no longer.  So he gets his revenge in the way the KD story follows, that is, by getting the lion jealous of a (fictive) lion who claims to be stronger.  The hare then leads the lion to the well where this supposed rival lives.  Here, in a fine illustration repeated on the cover, the lion's eyes are not green but reddish.  This version does not include the fictive rabbit captured by the fictive lion.  The final picture of the lion leaping into the well is particularly good.  There are suggestions for teachers for both fables on a page between the two fables.  The book is Talking Pen enabled.  This book is one of some eighteen bilingual editions combining other languages with English for these fables.  Unfortunately, they are a little on the expensive side!  Someday I may run into a whole group of them on sale.

This is a large-format (11" x 9 1/4") landscape book presenting two fables: LM and "The Hare's Revenge" in Bengali and English.  The illustrations seem to use about three or four colors, typically tan, brown, pink, and green.  LM uses the green effectively for the lion's eyes.  The mouse promises when caught to be the lion's friend forever.  "Who knows, one day I might even save your life."  The mouse needs apparently almost a full twenty-four hours to gnaw the lion free from his net.  "The Hare's Revenge" is labeled as a Malaysian fable, but its main "trick" is well known in "Panchatantra" and KD circles.  Here there is no agreement of all the animals to supply the lion with food.  Rather, hare has had to listen to the lion's boasting too often and can stand it no longer.  So he gets his revenge in the way the KD story follows, that is, by getting the lion jealous of a (fictive) lion who claims to be stronger.  The hare then leads the lion to the well where this supposed rival lives.  Here, in a fine illustration repeated on the cover, the lion's eyes are not green but reddish.  This version does not include the fictive rabbit captured by the fictive lion.  The final picture of the lion leaping into the well is particularly good.  There are suggestions for teachers for both fables on a page between the two fables.  The book is Talking Pen enabled.  This book is one of some eighteen bilingual editions combining other languages with English for these fables.  Unfortunately, they are a little on the expensive side!  I now have Bengali, simplified Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, and Albanian with Tamil on the way.

Here is a partner to another bilingual edition of Ormerod's Lion Fables, that one in simplified Chinese and this one in French.  As I wrote there, this is a large-format (11" x 9¼") landscape book presenting two fables: LM and "The Hare's Revenge."  The illustrations seem to use about three or four colors, typically tan, brown, pink, and green.  LM uses the green effectively for the lion's eyes.  The mouse promises when caught to be the lion's friend forever.  "Who knows, one day I might even save your life."  The mouse needs apparently almost a full twenty-four hours to gnaw the lion free from his net.  "The Hare's Revenge" is labeled as a Malaysian fable, but its main "trick" is well known in "Panchatantra" and KD circles.  Here there is no agreement of all the animals to supply the lion with food.  Rather, hare has had to listen to the lion's boasting too often and can stand it no longer.  So he gets his revenge in the way the KD story follows, that is, by getting the lion jealous of a (fictive) lion who claims to be stronger.  The hare then leads the lion to the well where this supposed rival lives.  Here, in a fine illustration repeated on the cover, the lion's eyes are not green but reddish.  This version does not include the fictive rabbit captured by the fictive lion.  The final picture of the lion leaping into the well is particularly good.  There are suggestions for teachers for both fables on a page between the two fables.  The book is Talking Pen enabled.  This book is one of some eighteen bilingual editions combining other languages with English for these fables.  Unfortunately, they are a little on the expensive side!  Someday I may run into a whole group of them on sale.

This is a large-format (11" x 9 1/4") landscape book presenting two fables: LM and "The Hare's Revenge" in Tamil and English.  The illustrations seem to use about three or four colors, typically tan, brown, pink, and green.  LM uses the green effectively for the lion's eyes.  The mouse promises when caught to be the lion's friend forever.  "Who knows, one day I might even save your life."  The mouse needs apparently almost a full twenty-four hours to gnaw the lion free from his net.  "The Hare's Revenge" is labeled as a Malaysian fable, but its main "trick" is well known in "Panchatantra" and KD circles.  Here there is no agreement of all the animals to supply the lion with food.  Rather, hare has had to listen to the lion's boasting too often and can stand it no longer.  So he gets his revenge in the way the KD story follows, that is, by getting the lion jealous of a (fictive) lion who claims to be stronger.  The hare then leads the lion to the well where this supposed rival lives.  Here, in a fine illustration repeated on the cover, the lion's eyes are not green but reddish.  This version does not include the fictive rabbit captured by the fictive lion.  The final picture of the lion leaping into the well is particularly good.  There are suggestions for teachers for both fables on a page between the two fables.  The book is Talking Pen enabled.  This book is one of some eighteen bilingual editions combining other languages with English for these fables.  Unfortunately, they are a little on the expensive side!  I now have Bengali, simplified Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian, Tamil, Vietnamese, and Albanian.

This is a large-format (11" x 9 1/4") landscape book presenting two fables: LM and "The Hare's Revenge."  The illustrations seem to use about three or four colors, typically tan, brown, pink, and green.  LM uses the green effectively for the lion's eyes.  The mouse promises when caught to be the lion's friend forever.  "Who knows, one day I might even save your life."  The mouse needs apparently almost a full twenty-four hours to gnaw the lion free from his net.  "The Hare's Revenge" is labeled as a Malaysian fable, but its main "trick" is well known in "Panchatantra" and KD circles.  Here there is no agreement of all the animals to supply the lion with food.  Rather, hare has had to listen to the lion's boasting too often and can stand it no longer.  So he gets his revenge in the way the KD story follows, that is, by getting the lion jealous of a (fictive) lion who claims to be stronger.  The hare then leads the lion to the well where this supposed rival lives.  Here, in a fine illustration repeated on the cover, the lion's eyes are not green but reddish.  This version does not include the fictive rabbit captured by the fictive lion.  The final picture of the lion leaping into the well is particularly good.  There are suggestions for teachers for both fables on a page between the two fables.  The book is Talking Pen enabled.  This book is one of some eighteen bilingual editions combining other languages with English for these fables.  Unfortunately, they are a little on the expensive side!  Someday I may run into a whole group of them on sale.  For now this is our tenth different language.

This is a large-format (11" x 9 1/4") landscape book presenting two fables: LM and "The Hare's Revenge."  The illustrations seem to use about three or four colors, typically tan, brown, pink, and green.  LM uses the green effectively for the lion's eyes.  The mouse promises when caught to be the lion's friend forever.  "Who knows, one day I might even save your life."  The mouse needs apparently almost a full twenty-four hours to gnaw the lion free from his net.  "The Hare's Revenge" is labeled as a Malaysian fable, but its main "trick" is well known in "Panchatantra" and KD circles.  Here there is no agreement of all the animals to supply the lion with food.  Rather, hare has had to listen to the lion's boasting too often and can stand it no longer.  So he gets his revenge in the way the KD story follows, that is, by getting the lion jealous of a (fictive) lion who claims to be stronger.  The hare then leads the lion to the well where this supposed rival lives.  Here, in a fine illustration repeated on the cover, the lion's eyes are not green but reddish.  This version does not include the fictive rabbit captured by the fictive lion.  The final picture of the lion leaping into the well is particularly good.  There are suggestions for teachers for both fables on a page between the two fables.  The book is Talking Pen enabled.  This book is one of some eighteen bilingual editions combining other languages with English for these fables.  Unfortunately, they are a little on the expensive side!  I now have Arabic (twice, 2006 and 2012), Urdu, Swahili, Polish, French, Bengali, and Italian.  Someday I may run into a whole group of them on sale.