Creighton University

"Basada en la fábula de Esopo."  This set of twelve-page pamphlets has a huge format of almost 11" x almost 15".  There are ten pamphlets in the series.  I have found five so far.  This version of TMCM is heavy on the delights of the farm and involves just one visit to the city.  The trip apparently happens on a rat-sized train.  The variety and quantity of cheeses available at the city rat's home is enough to put both rats to sleep.  A cat wakes them up, and country rat needs no more provocation before going home.  The moral says that the secret of happiness is to learn to appreciate the good that we have instead of pining after the good that we do not have.  The two-page colorful picture spreads seem computer generated.

"Basada en la fábula de Esopo."  This set of twelve-page pamphlets has a huge format of almost 11" x almost 15".  There are ten pamphlets in the series.  I have found five so far.  This version of "The Tortoise and the Eagle" starts with the dream of the tortoise.  She seems to be a female, with a flower in what would be her hair; she also has eyeglasses.  Despite cautions from her parents, she persists in seeking her dream.  A first effort has her creating wings and trying them out.  The next step takes her to the eagle.  The strongest illustration of the book shows her terrified up in the air of a canyon, where she has asked the eagle to let her now fly solo.  The final picture shows that she has learned her lesson: she enjoys lying back in a pond.  The two-page colorful picture spreads seem computer generated.

"Basada en la fábula de La Fontaine."  This set of twelve-page pamphlets has a huge format of almost 11" x almost 15".  There are ten pamphlets in the series.  I have found five so far.  This member differs from others in its date of 2007 as well as its printer, adaptor, and artist.  This version of OF is unusual, I believe, in that the frog usually has no interest in being an ox; she just thinks that she must be as big as an ox.  The story itself is also about size; the title seems therefore inaccurate.  The story itself adds two new phases as the frog first demonstrates to a friendly rat that she can make herself as big as he is.  Next she encounters a dapper rabbit and soon enough is blowing herself up, so she believes, to his size.  She exclaims after he leaves "Soy una rana increíblemente grande!"  The final two-page illustration is particularly well done.  The drinking bull snorts water out his nose at the inflated frog.  A bird perched on the bull's horn gestures that the frog is crazy.  The frog's belly is terribly distended.  The final page's text has the frog apparently exploding, but the last illustration is a version of the cover's image.  She is a balloon with two eyeballs and spindly extremities.  The two-page colorful picture spreads seem computer generated.

"Basada en la fábula de Esopo."  This set of twelve-page pamphlets has a huge format of almost 11" x almost 15".  There are ten pamphlets in the series.  I have found five so far.  This member is among those done in 2007 in Colombia.  In this version of AD a diving frog upsets the floating bee.  The dove helps the drowning bee with a branch.  The face of the bee is particularly attractive in this version.  Soon enough a fox threatens the dove.  She has no time to escape, and the fox's jaws are around her.  The bee stings the fox just in time.  Now he has a "tough guy" face and he flies about with fighter's fists.