Creighton University

This story works as well with the present donkey as it does with the traditional horse.  The victim tells the attacking wolf that he has a thorn in his hoof and so could not run away.  He would hate to see his attacker get that thorn caught in his throat.  The wolf attends to the thorn and is kicked in the face.  The artist does a good job of rendering the wolf as final victim in the last two-page spread.  The stated moral is "Do not panic.  be calm and collected when disasters strike."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #8: a child goat and an older bear look at a book together in front of a shelf of books.  There are problems in the editing of this story, including the mispunctuation of the moral above.  Earlier we read "the thorn might be stucked to his throat."  The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

This version follows the traditional story of the stag and horse.  The stag comes into the horse's field and tramples the grass which the horse eats.  If anything from the traditional story gets lost here, it might be in the moral.  Many of us, I believe, see in the story a lesson about giving up one's freedom.  The stated moral is "Those who think ill of the others get bad result in return."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #8: a child goat and an older bear look at a book together in front of a shelf of books.  The artist does well with the horse's facial expressions, especially in the moment of the surprising request by the man to ride on his back.  The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

This version of BF has several different twists.  The king of the birds calls for a meeting to choose the most beautiful bird as the new king.  The same king of the birds chooses the jackdaw with his borrowed feathers.  Thereupon, the other birds pull their beautiful feathers out of his body.  The king then drives the crow out.  The stated moral is "One cannot escape from the truth."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #8: a child goat and an older bear look at a book together in front of a shelf of books.  The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

This version of the traditional fable has the man living in an "old and decayed house."  He asks the forest if he "may cut some trees in the forest."  Their answer the next day is that he may cut one.  Out of that one he shapes the axe-handle with which he cuts down many trees.  The traditional fable may have the man asking just for one limb of one tree.  The stated moral is "Think carefully before making any decision."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #8: a child goat and an older bear look at a book together in front of a shelf of books.  The artist has fun giving faces to trees.  The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

This story is totally new to me.  A chameleon finds a magic sword.  Other animals hear of it and make him their king.  They conquer animals who will not surrender to him.  An elephant hears of it and asks the chameleon if he knows how to use the sword.  "No."  With that, the elephant steps on the chameleon.  The stated moral, not necessarily very helpful here, is "Those who think ill of the others get bad result in return."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #8: a child goat and an older bear look at a book together in front of a shelf of books.  The editing is poor in this pamphlet, for example, in this sentence: "It once belonges to the brave warrior and helpes him defeated all his enemies."  The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

The story follows the traditional fable.  A curiosity is that the text is explaining that the bird cannot extricate himself from the sheep's wool while the artist shows the shepherd pulling him away from the sheep.  The stated moral is "Know yourself, know your strenght."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #8: a child goat and an older bear look at a book together in front of a shelf of books.  The editor has some trouble with English, for example, speaking twice in a row of "a hawk" as referring to the same hawk.  There is also the misspelling in the moral.  The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".