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The Farm
No full textThe book features sixty-four vinyl figures that can be moved many times. After such scenes as Winter on the farm, Harvest time, and Market day, there is one titled Country tales. It includes FC and TH as well as The Ugly Duckling. Figures of the fox, the crow, the tortoise, and the hare come, of course, ready to press and lift. The inside back cover has a quiz-question on FC. What a lovely idea this book is!Edward Moor
Children's Favorite Animal Fables
No full textI stumbled over the single remaining copy of this large-formatted (10 x 12½) book in Barnes and Noble on a Saturday morning stroll. It gathers together the eight small books that Percy published with Henry Holt in 1993. The place of publication remains Singapore. In 2000 David Bennett Books apparently published a large-formatted version in the UK. This edition is ©Barnes & Noble 2002. I am surprised to find the introduction (The Story of the Fable) listing and explaining the moral of each fable. Half of the fables (BC, TMCM, FC, and The Heron and the Fish) change their morals and three (TH, FS, and TMCM) their titles. In TH, The hare is a perpetual boaster who picks out the tortoise as someone to sneer at. The course here is a lake, and a field mouse is the referee. The tone of GA is not resolved to my satisfaction. Lots of sympathy goes here to the ant, apparently a single parent, who works hard for her children. Her home is a cozy paradise in winter, stocked with the food she has gathered and the blankets she has woven. The lazy grasshopper is turned away completely, and the ant teaches her children this strange moral: Always save for a rainy day. FS loses several elements from its earlier version. The fox here is a practical joker. Ms. Stork buys a new dress for the occasion and shows off her long neck with the strands of a pearl necklace. The Cat and the Mice starts with a wonderful picture of the large family of mice not peaceful and happy. They fear the cat prowling just outside their little country home. There is a wealth of anthropomorphic detail here in the description of the mouse family's life. They eat eggs for breakfast, the children practice the piano, and the father smokes a pipe. Mother mouse gets the bright idea. Grandmother mouse puts it down. In TMCM, the city mouse stays a few days in the country before he starts complaining. In the city, he reclines wonderfully in a cake stand. At the end there is a clever introduction to the moral: Write something for me to remember you by. What the country mouse writes in this version differs from what he wrote in the 1993 edition. There he wrote Pleasure that comes at such a cost is no pleasure at all, but here A quiet and safe life is better than a luxurious but fearful one. Is this an improvement? The vain crow in FC goes right into the kitchen to get the cheese. The moral is delivered by one watching sparrow to another. LM starts with a great picture of the mouse in babushka hurrying home with a stalk of wheat for her children. She rests for five minutes on what she thinks is a brown tree stump. The children make a good factor for her appeal. There is good realism in her remark after being released I might be able to help you someday. To get the lion free, she has to gnaw all night and half the next day. The Heron and the Fish uses the late afternoon hours to mark the progress from perch to trout to minnows to carp to a snail. The fish point their fins and giggle and gurgle at the heron's pathetic supper. The good moral comes from a wise frog bystander: Folk who are too choosy often miss out altogether. The black-and-white silhouettes now join small colored illustrations in framing the text pages on the left, which face full-page colored illustrations magnified from the smaller books. Each story has six of these giant illustrations on its right-hand pages. Percy's work is able to survive the magnification. The book suffers from cheap production. The folding hinges around its spine are weak, and the pages are starting to protrude beyond the covers.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)First printingRetold and Illustrated by Graham Perc
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
No full textA high-class hardbound book with very good art. The guest is not just from the city but from the court. The country mouse offers better fare than in most versions. A dog, a cat, and servants menace. The country mouse escapes by night down a vine. Well done. I like this book.This is a hardbound book (hard cover
The Tortoise and the Hare
No full textGood, lively art in a well-told story. The hare is a perpetual boaster who picks out the tortoise as someone to sneer at. The course here is a lake, and a field mouse the referee. Little black-and-white designs set off the text pages that alternate with full-page colored art. Good work!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)First American editionFirst printingGraham Perc
The Fox and the Crow
No full textParticularly good, lively art. The best illustrations may be those of the crow singing and of the fox ready to catch the cheese with open jaws. The crow here is vain and conceited from the first line on. He goes right into the kitchen to get the cheese. The moral is delivered by one watching sparrow to another: If you believe those who flatter you, you may be sorry. Little black-and-white designs set off the text pages that alternate with full-page colored art. Fine work!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)First American editionGraham Perc
The Cat and the Mice
No full textGood, lively art in a well-told story. The book starts the story with a wonderful picture of the large family of mice not peaceful and happy. There is a wealth of anthropomorphic detail here in the description of the mouse family's life. They eat eggs for breakfast, the children practice the piano, and the father smokes a pipe. Mother mouse gets the bright idea. Grandmother mouse puts it down. The moral: Great ideas aren't great unless you think them through. Little black-and-white designs set off the text pages that alternate with full-page colored art. Fine work!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)First American editionGraham Perc
The Heron and the Fish
No full textGood, lively art. The version follows La Fontaine quite faithfully and uses the late afternoon hours to mark the progress from perch to trout to carp to minnows to a snail. The fish point their fins and giggle and gurgle at the heron's pathetic supper. There is a good moral from a wise frog bystander: Folks who want too much usually end up with nothing. Little black-and-white designs set off the text pages that alternate with full-page colored art. Fine work!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)First American editionGraham Perc
The Grasshopper and the Ant
No full textGood, lively art in a dramatic story. Lots of sympathy goes here to the ant, apparently a single parent, who works hard for her children. Her home is a cozy paradise in winter, stocked with the food she has gathered and the blankets she has woven. The lazy grasshopper is turned away completely, and the ant teaches her children a strange moral, I would say: Always save for a rainy day. The tone of the story is not resolved to my satisfaction. Little black-and-white designs set off the text pages that alternate with full-page colored art.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)First American editionFirst printingGraham Perc
The Stork and the Fox
No full textGood, lively art in a well-told story. The fox is a practical joker. Ms. Stork buys a new dress for the occasion and shows off her long neck with the strands of a pearl necklace. Invited in turn, Mr. Fox answers I'm not particular about where I dine. She brings him out to the kitchen so that he can see his favorite vegetables going into a soup that turns out surprisingly clear. Little black-and-white designs set off the text pages that alternate with full-page colored art. Fine work!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)First American editionGraham Perc
Hm-mm-mm-mm, so this is Love! [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voiceads on back cover for Harms, Inc. stock6858-3Music is duplicated in 157.002.Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
157, Item 001Words by Percy Graham Paul & E. Ray Goetz. Music by Paul A. Rubens.Charles Frohman, In Association With E. Ray Goetz, Presents Irene Bordoni in Little Miss Bluebeard. A Gay New Song-Play by Avery Hopwood.photo by [signature indecipherable] of Bordon
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