The Tale Of A Fox

Ehlert, Lois: MOLE'S HILL: A WOODLAND TALE, San Diego Harcourt 1994
ISBN: 0-15-255116-6 As New

ABOUT THE BOOK Mole's Hill: A Woodland Tale ANNOTATION When Fox tells Mole she must move out of her tunnel to make way for a new path, Mole finds an ingenious way to save her home. FROM THE PUBLISHER Mole loves her burrow near the pond. It's safe and cozy underground, and best of all - it's home. So when Fox says Mole has to move her home to make room for a new path, Mole must do some quick thinking - and digging - to save it. Lois Ehlert lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly Inspired by a Seneca tale, this is a whimsical story of overcoming the might of an adversary through ingenuity. Fox, irritated at having to walk around Mole's hill, sends Skunk and Raccoon to direct her to move by autumn. Clever Mole enlarges the hill, then plants seeds, creating such a lush mound that even Fox cannot bring himself to destroy it; instead, he asks Mole to dig a tunnel so that the animals' path can go through her hill from now on. Once again Ehlert achieves dazzling effects with simple geometric shapes and strong, pure hues. Here, she uses appliques in bright, largely primary colors, often textured with tiny, bead-like dots. Mole's hill is glorious in its various incarnations: unplanted, as concentric rings of red, blue and green against an inky sky; in full bloom, with a riot of flowers, leaves and berries against the iridescent yellow of summer sunlight. And as always, her figures are remarkably expressive, with Mole a model of industriousness and, later, contentment, and Skunk and Raccoon looking quizzical indeed as they wonder ""what that Mole is up to.'' Ages 3-8. (Apr.) Publishers Weekly "Ehlert achieves dazzling effects with simple geometric shapes and strong, pure hues," said PW in a starred review. Ages 4-8. (Sept.) Children's Literature - Susie Wilde Set in the Wisconsin woodlands, fox, skunk, mole and raccoon are fast friends who have a falling out when mole's home blocks their proposed path to the pond. Fortunately the clever mole finds an ingenious way to save her home. The flora and fauna indigenous to the region are illustrated using ribbon applique and sewn beadwork in this adaptation of a Seneca tale. School Library Journal K-Gr 2-The creator of the acclaimed Moon Rope (Harcourt, 1992) has taken a fragment of a Seneca tale and provided gorgeous, full-page illustrations to accompany her simple text. Fox, Skunk, and Raccoon order Mole to move because her mound of dirt blocks their path to the pond. Clever Mole spends the summer building up and beautifying the hill above her underground network of tunnels, and by fall it is too large to move. Instead, Fox asks her to dig a tunnel through it, which, of course, she is happy to do. Ehlert's collages, inspired by the Woodland Indians' traditional arts of ribbon appliqu and beadwork, are bold; graphically striking; and rich in form, shape, and color. Perfect for young children, this is an admirable marriage of text and art.-Cyrisse Jaffee, formerly at Newton Public Schools, MA BookList - Carolyn Phelan When Fox finds a mole hill inconveniently placed along his path to the pond, he informs Mole that she must make way. Raccoon advises her, "Better listen to Fox--he's got big teeth." Unwilling to move, Mole plants seeds on her hill. Months later, her beautiful flowers win over the other animals, convincing them to preserve her hill. When Fox asks her to dig a tunnel so that other animals can go through the hill, she agrees. Broad, double-page spreads feature collages of bright, bold shapes against solid backgrounds. Most of the colorful, collage papers are stippled. Notes at the end of the book tell that the story derives from a fragment of a Seneca tale and is set in Wisconsin, with indigenous flora and fauna. <P> As with Ehlert's other books, the artwork reflects careful research and a strong eye for shape and color. Although the book is visually dynamic, the storytelling lacks tension. Still, Ehlert's fans, as well as teachers seeking simple picture books based on Native American tales, will want to consider this one. </strong> As New Book Jacket Hardcover 12.12x10.33x.44 in. 1.12 lbs.

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Caldecott, R. Illustrator: Caldecott, R. R. Caldecottis Picture Books The Great Panjandrum Himself ; Hey Diddle-Diddle & Baby Bunting ; Ride A Cock Horse to Banbury Cross & A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare ; The Fox Jumps over the iParsonis Gate ; The Milkmaid ; An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex of Mrs. Mary Blaize ; Tippoo a Tale of a Tiger as Told by W. Ralston and C. W. Cole. London George Routledge No date [1880 - 1910]
CONDITION: (Good/[No dustjacket]). CONDITION COMMENTS: A generally sound book with clean engravings and pages. Cloth separating from backstip, several of the booklet covers are torn with lower half missing on Hey Diddle Diddle and only 26 pages of Tippoo present (No other noteable faults) 1250 grams) . http://www.kirklandbooks.biz/si/11478.html

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: A set of 8 Caldecott picture books bound together: Come Lasses and Lads (24 printed pages) ; The Great Panjandrum Himself (24 printed pages) ; Hey Diddle-Diddle & Baby Bunting (24 printed pages ) ; Ride A Cock Horse to Banbury Cross & A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare (24 printed pages) ; The Fox Jumps over the iParsonis Gate (24 printed pages) ; The Milkmaid (24 printed pages) ; An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex of Mrs. Mary Blaize (24 printed pages) ; Tippoo a Tale of a Tiger as Told by W. Ralston and C. W. Cole (26 printed pages).. Hardcover Good

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Hester, Kathleen, Barbara Mason, Harold G. Shane, Manuel H. Guerra: Good Times in The City (Urban Reading Series) California State Department of Education 1969
VG- Tom Fawelt, Michael Norman, Mary Miller Salem

Book Three from the Urban Reading Series - Stories of City Life and Tales of Long Ago. School stamp on the front endpaper, otherwise good. Appears unissued. Approximately 2-3 grade level. Stories and Poems included are - What Can I Do, America?, Pepe gets lost at the Zoo, Peter find a Dog, Tony's Halloween Party, For Halloween, Where Was Walter?, Lee Sing Tells Time, The Burro on the Freeway, Rosa's Doll, The Baseball Game, To Any Reader by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Lion and the Mouse - a Fable from Aesop, The Elves and the Shoemaker - A German Folk Tale from Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm, The Little Shoemakers - A Musical Rhyme from Mother Goose, How the Bear Lost His Tail - An American Indian Folk Tale, My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Boy and the North Wind - Norse Folk Tale, What Are Little Boys Made of - Musical Rhyme from Mother Goose, The Rabbit and the Turtle - a Fable from Aesop, The Fox and the Crow - A Fable from Aesop, Rain Fairies by Ellen M. Cyr. Hard Cover Ex-School Text

[SW: Readers, Urban Reading Series, Tom Fawelt, Michael Norman, Mary Miller Salem, Scottie, Dogs, Scottish Terrier. Book Three from the Urban Reading Series - Stories of City Life and Tales of Long Ago. School stamp on the front endpaper, otherwise good. Appears unissued. Approximately 2-3 grade level. Stories and Poems included are - What Can I Do, America?, Pepe gets lost at the Zoo, Peter find a Dog, Tony's Halloween Party, For Halloween, Where Was Walter?, Lee Sing Tells Time, The Burro on the Freeway, Rosa's Doll, The Baseball Game, To Any Reader by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Lion and the Mouse - a Fable from Aesop, The Elves and the Shoemaker - A German Folk Tale from Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm, The Little Shoemakers - A Musical Rhyme from Mother Goose, How the Bear Lost His Tail - An American Indian Folk Tale, My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Boy and the North Wind - Norse Folk Tale, What Are Little Boys Made of - Musical Rhyme from Mother Goose, The Rabbit and the Turtle - a Fable from Aesop, The Fox and the Crow - A Fable from Aesop, Rain Fairies by Ellen M. Cyr.Readers & other Textbooks General Children Dogs - Scottish Terriers]

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Charles, Gerda (introduction) (Homer; Herodotus; Apollonius; Phaedrus; Pliny the Younger; Geoffrey of Monmouth; Sir Thomas Malory; Robert Greene; Daniel Defoe; Joseph Addison; Oliver Goldsmith; Oscar Wilde; Christian Gellert; E. T. A. Hoffman): GREAT SHORT STORIES OF THE WORLD: The Two Brothers; Setna and the Magic Book; Eumaeus' Tale; The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse; King Rhampsinitus and the Thief; Phineus and the Harpies; The Robbers of Egypt; Horatius at the Bridge, New York Gallery Books 1990
ISBN: 0831739800 Very Good+ Graham Potts;

(xvii) 876 pp. Actually a first thus. Glossy pictorial boards with a matching dustjacket; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings. Cover art by Graham Potts. This anthology contains: ANCIENT EGYPT: The Two Brothers: Anpu and Bata - Anonymous; Setna and the Magic Book - Anonymous; ANCIENT GREECE: Eumaeus' Tale by Homer; The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse by Aesop; King Rhampsinitus and the Thief by Herodotus; Phineus and the Harpies by Apollonius of Rhodes; The Robbers of Egypt by Heliodorus; ANCIENT ROME: Horatius at the Bridge by Livy; Orpheus and Eurydice by Ovid; The Shipwreck of Simonides by Phaedrus; The Matron of Ephesus by Petronius; The Haunted House by Pliny the Younger; The Dream by Apuleius; BIBLICAL LITERATURE: The Book of Ruth - Old Testament; The History of Susanna - The Apocrypha; The Prodigal Son - New Testament; Rabbi Akiva - The Talmud; The Jewish Mother - The Talmud; ANCIENT INDIA: The Ass in the Lion's Skin by Jataka; The Dove and the Crow by Panchatantra; The Story of Devadatta - Somadeva; The Jackal by Hitopadesa; PERSIA: Jamshid and Zuhak by Firdawsi; The Sailor and the Pearl Merchant - Anonymous; ARABIA: Khaled and Djaida by Al Asma'I; Abou Hassan the Way - Thousand and One Nights; GREAT BRITAIN: Grendel's Raid - Beowulf; Esyllt and Sabrina by Geoffrey of Monmouth; The Humbling of Jovinian - Gesta Romanorum; Lludd andLlevelys - The Mabinogion; Launcelot's Tourney by Sir Thomas Malory; Roberto's Tale by Robert Greene; True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe; The Soldier of an Heir by Joseph Addison; The Disabled Soldier by Oliver Goldsmith; The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple by Sir Walter Scott; The White Trout by Samuel Lover; The Queer Client by Charles Dickens; A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins; Squire Petrick's Lady by Thomas Hardy; Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde; Julia Cahill's Curse by George Moore; That Brute Simmons by Arthur Morrison; GERMANY: The Lay of Hildebrand - Anonymous; Siegfried and Kriemhild - The Lay of the Nibelungs; The Coming of Gandin by Gottfried von Strassburg; Bruin the Bear and Reynard the Fox - Reynard the Fox; Eulenspiegel and the Merchant - Eulenspiegel; Doctor Faust and the Usurer - The History of Dr. J. Faust; The Sick Wife by Christian Gellert; Little Briar Rose by The Brothers Grimm; The Story of Serapion by E. T. A. Hoffman; A Legend of the Dance by Gottfried Keller; The Fury by Paul Heyse; The Triple Warning by Arthur Schnitzler; A New Year's Eve Confession by Hermann Sudermann; FRANCE: The Divided Horsecloth by Bernier; The Priest and the Mulberries - Anonymous; The Lay of the Two Lovers by Marie de France; The Pios Lady and the Gray Friar by Marguerite de Navarre; He Who Married a Dumb Wife by Francois Rabelais; The Roast Meat Seller by Charles Perrault; The Four Friends by Jean de La Fontaine; Memnon the Philosopher by Voltaire; Lausus and Lydia by J. F. Marmontel; The Mysterious Mansion by Honore de Balzac; Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee; The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier; The Torture of Hope by Villiers de L'Isle Adam; The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet; The Fairy Amoureuse by Emile Zola; The Substitute by Francois Coppee; Our Lady's Juggler by Anatole France; The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant; ITALY: The Bell of Atri - The Hundred Ancient Tales; The Galcon by Giovanni Boccaccio; Galgano by Ser Giovanni; The Two Ambassadors by Franco Sacchetti; The Cavalier of Toledo by Masuccio (Guardato;) Belphagor by Niccolo Macciavelli; A King in Disguise by Matteo Bandello; The Friar of Novara by Agnolo Firenzuola; The Greek Merchant by Giovanbattista Giraldi Cinthio; The Venetian Silk Mercer by Carlo Gozzi; Cavalleria Rusticana by Giovanni Verga; The Peasant's Will by Antonio Fogazzaro; Medicant Melody by Edmondo de Amicis; Lulu's Triumph by Matilde Serao; The Hero by Gabriele d'Annuzio; Two Miracles by Grazia Deledda; SPAIN: The Miracle of the Jew - Chronicle of the Cid; The Son and His Friends by Juan Manuel; How Lazaro Served a Bulero by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza; Guzman and My Lord Cardinal by Mateo Aleman; Rinconete and Cortadillo by Miguel Cervantes; The Tall Woman by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon; Maese Perez the Organist by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer; Adios Cordera by Leopoldo Alas; CHINA: The Story of Ming-y - Marvelous Tales; A Fickle Widow - Marvelous Tales; JAPAN: The Forty Seven Ronins - Anonymous; The Pier by Mori Ogwai; HUNGARY: The Invisible Wound by Karoly Kisfaludi; A Ball by Maurus Jokai; RUSSIA: The Snow Storm by Alexander Pushkin; St. John's Eve by Nikolai Gogol; The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev; The Christmas Tree and the Wedding by Feodor Dostoievsky; The Long Exile by Leo Tolstoy; The Old Bell Ringer by Vladimir Korolenko; The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin; The Bet by Anton Chekhov; One Autumn Night by Maxim Gorky; Silence by Leonid Adreyev; POLAND: The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall by Henryk Sienkiewicz; The Human Telegraph by Boleslav Prus; Forebodings by Stefan Zeromski; ICELAND: Baldr's Bale by Snorri Sturluson; Regin's Tale - Volsunga Saga; DENMARK: The Shepherdess and the Sweep by Hans Christian Andersen; Henrik and Rosalie by Meyer Aron Goldschmidt; Two Worlds by Jens Peter Jacobsen; NORWAY: The Smith Who Could Not Get Into Hell by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe; The Father by Bjornstjerne Bjornson; Skobelef by Johan Bojer; SWEDEN: Love and Bread by August Strindberg; The Eclipse by Selma Lagerlof; BELGIUM: The Mysterious Picture by Charles de Coster; The Massacre of the Innocents by Maurice Maeterlinck; The Soul of Veere by Camille Lemonnier; One Night by Emile Verhaeren; CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Vampire by Jan Neruda; Foltyn's Drum by Svatopluk Cech; COSTA RICA: Chivalry by Ricardo Fernandez Garcia; BRAZIL: The Attendant's Confession by J. M Machado de Assis; PERU: The Legend of Pygmalion by Ventura Garcia Calderon; UNITED STATES: Mrs Bullfrog by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe; Journalism in Tennessee by Mark Twain; The Man and the Snake by Ambrose Bierce; The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte; The Story In It by Henry James; Supply and Demand by O. Henry; The Lost Phoebe by Theodore Dreiser; Sophistication by Sherwood Anderson; A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather; and A Brown Woman by James Branch Cabell. Scans are available for all books. First Printing Very Good+ Hard Cover 8vo

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