Abstract The two sides of the tapes are for manual and automatic slide forwarding. Good sound effects and music. Generally a bit scratched up from wear. The stories tend to be elaborated.FC: 4:30. 27 illustrations. Well told.BW: 4:42. 29 illustrations. The first time, the men did not realize that the boy had been fooling them. The second time they did. In the end, all the sheep were killed. "Don't ask for help when you don't need it."LM: 4:43. 27 illustrations. The...

Abstract "The Monkey and the Camel": 6:20. 33 illustrations. The set's most colorful illustrations. "You must earn praise.""The Fox and the Goat": 5:45. 32 illustrations. "Look before you leap."MM: 5:35. 29 illustrations. She did not like her job. Much time and emphasis here on the chickens and eggs. Mom admonishes: "Don't count your chickens before they hatch."GGE: 5:50. 29 illustrations. The farmer is tempted at first to throw the egg away. The goose produces an...

Abstract TB: 5:37. 30 illustrations. (Careful: the spool may catch before the tape is fully rewound.) The bear sees both talking; does that not preclude playing dead? The two are introduced as friends, but the author comments at the end that the climber had not been a real friend to the other."The Man, His Son, and the Donkey": 5:25. 30 illustrations. People along the way are angry. The man also gets angry along the way. The donkey unties the rope with his teeth. "Never try to please...

Abstract With the change in date, the format of these last six filmstrips changes slightly. No longer are the strips paginated. Each strip credits both script and art. Don Roberts does all the scripting. Rex Duden is responsible for the art of the first strip, while Gloriana (or "G." or "Glory") Gill does the rest. The art becomes slightly more sophisticated in this series.WC: 4:48. The wolf has a good choking voice. Others try to help; the beaver thumps the wolf's back and the back of...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can...

Abstract Good sound effects behind six stories so elaborated that they may no longer be fables. "Skywind" features the task of separating rice from sand. "Stone Soup" is, as always, a delight. "Kantchil and the Deep Hole" is about a very small deer in Indonesia. Kantchil falls into the deep hole and reads from a "magic" leaf that (1) the world ends today, (2) only those in the deep hole will be saved, and (3) anyone who sneezes must be thrown out of the hole. "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" is about...

Abstract This is one of two audio-cassettes accompanying a book of the same name. Apparently each of the four sides contains about ten fables. of the forty-one fables in the book. The book enhances each English text with vocabulary, translations, and "listening points." The cassettes present, after some opening Chinese, a reading of each of the fables with its listening points. These idiomatic phrases may be the strongest point of these tapes and of this combined publication. The tapes feature...

Abstract This is one of two audio-cassettes accompanying a book of the same name. Apparently each of the four sides contains about ten fables. of the forty-one fables in the book. The book enhances each English text with vocabulary, translations, and "listening points." The cassettes present, after some opening Chinese, a reading of each of the fables with its listening points. These idiomatic phrases may be the strongest point of these tapes and of this combined publication. The tapes feature...

Abstract "Aesop's Fables" is the first of five cassettes. The others are "Snow White/Sleeping Beauty," "Nursery Rhymes," "Sense and Nonsense," and "Fiction and Fantasy." The fable cassette seems to run about fifteen minutes on each side. There is a short introduction to Aesop and fable. Each fable has an announced title and moral. The strength of the fable presentations here lies in two facets. First, there is fine musical accompaniment throughout, including a short orchestral climax after each...

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Twenty-one fables on each side. Karloff's reading is sensitive but surprisingly low-keyed. The texts, whose author I cannot identify, seem classic, pithy, well expressed. This tape is clearer than the 78 rpm record of the same production.

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Twenty-one fables on each side. Karloff's reading is sensitive but surprisingly low-keyed. The texts, whose author I cannot identify, seem classic, pithy, well expressed. This tape is clearer than the 78 rpm record of the same production.

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See my comments on the book. Two of the last three tales there are dropped--"The End of the World" and "The Golden Goose"--so that eighteen of its twenty are read here. Burstyn reads well, and the musical background is both good and nicely varied.

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I can see why this effort was winner of a "Best Audio Tape" award. To judge from the first fable, the tape brings lively narration, good guitar background, and effective alternate voices. There are eight fables, with engaging new titles: "The Kind Ant," "The Fashionable Fox," "Max and His Trusty Ax," "The Most Beautiful Bird," "The Courageous King," "The Neighbors," "Penelope and Henrietta," and "TootleLee and TootleLou."

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I can see why this effort was winner of a "Best Audio Tape" award. To judge from the first fable, the tape brings lively narration, good guitar background, and effective alternate voices. There are eight fables, with engaging new titles: "The Kind Ant," "The Fashionable Fox," "Max and His Trusty Ax," "The Most Beautiful Bird," "The Courageous King," "The Neighbors," "Penelope and Henrietta," and "TootleLee and TootleLou."

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An ingenious set. See my comments on the book of the same title and year. The tape's renditions are much more expansive than those in this book. (In fact, they are adaptations--for all but SW--of versions from Zorn's Aesop's Fables from Running Press in 1990.) Reiner's reading is excellent! BW is expanded and now includes some hyperbole; the wolf now eats the boy in one gulp! The tortoise has become female, and TMCM's dog has become a cat.

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An ingenious set. See my comments on the book of the same title and year. The tape's renditions are much more expansive than those in this book. (In fact, they are adaptations--for all but SW--of versions from Zorn's Aesop's Fables from Running Press in 1990.) Reiner's reading is excellent! BW is expanded and now includes some hyperbole; the wolf now eats the boy in one gulp! The tortoise has become female, and TMCM's dog has become a cat.

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Caedmon reproduced and repackaged their cassette of 1967. As I wrote then, there are twenty-one fables on each side. Karloff's reading is sensitive but surprisingly low-keyed. The texts, whose author I cannot identify, seem classic, pithy, well expressed.

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Caedmon reproduced and repackaged their cassette of 1967. As I wrote then, there are twenty-one fables on each side. Karloff's reading is sensitive but surprisingly low-keyed. The texts, whose author I cannot identify, seem classic, pithy, well expressed.