"Once again, things come together from different times and places. In Salamanca in 1986, I found a simple pop-up from a publisher I did not know. Sixteen years later I found a French die-cut presentation of LM done by ...

Another cute rebus story from Checkerboard in the series that includes The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (1989). Each picture is given with its word in the margin. Hernandez' pastels are appealing. The best illustration ...

This classic tale is well told here, with lively two-color and three-color illustrations. The endpapers of the olive edition (marked 6.70 on the reverse of the title-page) are torn. The multi-colored copy is marked 4.69.

This book is identical with a version printed by the same publisher in 1985, with the following changes. It has a new cover showing the detail of the faces of the two mice against a white background. The front cover no ...

This book is in the same series with Goldie the Goose (1950?) and The Lion and the Mouse Join the Circus (1950?). The turtle is Myrtle, and the Bunny is Bert. Myrtle joins Mrs. Duck in telling Bert that he should not ...

Distributed with an undated audio cassette from Peralta Montagut. The pictures here are exactly the same as in my 1987 Derrydale edition and the French and German versions, likewise listed under 1987?. Of the sixteen ...

Mother Goose tells her goslings the story of Auntie Goldie and Farmer Brown. Though the art has him throwing away the hatchet, the written version has him killing her. A nice simple pop-up book, in the same series as The ...

This delightful Russian folktale makes use of the Aesopic motif of getting the attacker to stop and read a message on the horse's hoof. In this case, the lion is the attacker, and there have been several typical folkloric ...

The five watercolor illustrations here are simply wonderful! The cover shows the mouse and frog tied together in a weird sort of embrace. Succeeding illustrations show the mouse at the riverside, the frog and mouse on ...

Henrisone's version of the fable is fun. Both creatures are female. There is a long discussion about judging character by outward appearance. About halfway through the fable (line 410) the frog is identified as foul, ...