Creighton University

This is one of ten landscape pamphlets of 24 pages each that come in two five-pamphlet sets.  This set is labeled as "Volume I."  Texts offer rhyming verse, and there is a flap at the end of each pamphlet to cover the right-hand picture while a young reader tries to make out the words on the left-hand page.  The fables are all told in the present tense.  The computer-generated graphics seem to match up well with the texts.  This version focuses on the "man from the zoo" who, near his truck, looks away after he has tied up the lion.  The time-lapse between the mouse's escape and the arrival of this man seems instantaneous.  Similarly small must be the duration of the mouse's work to free the lion!  The man is last seen running away.

This is one of ten landscape pamphlets of 24 pages each that come in two five-pamphlet sets.  This set is labeled as "Volume I."  Texts offer rhyming verse, and there is a flap at the end of each pamphlet to cover the right-hand picture while a young reader tries to make out the words on the left-hand page.  The fables are told in the present tense.  The computer-generated graphics seem to match up well with the texts.  The best of the illustrations may be the triptych presentation of the fox's leaping at the center of the pamphlet.  Unfortunately, just after that point, the text lapses into the past.

This is one of ten landscape pamphlets of 24 pages each that come in two five-pamphlet sets.  This set is labeled as "Volume I."  Texts offer rhyming verse, and there is a flap at the end of each pamphlet to cover the right-hand picture while a young reader tries to make out the words on the left-hand page.  The fables are told in the present tense.  The computer-generated graphics seem to match up well with the texts.  This version of the fable is disappointing.  The fox here asks for the cheese!  No!  Then the crow answers while the cheese remains in his beak!  No!  The illustrator does a good job with the fox's "catch" of the cheese, "laying out" like a football player catching a pass.

This is one of ten landscape pamphlets of 24 pages each that come in two five-pamphlet sets.  This set is labeled as "Volume I."  Texts offer rhyming verse, and there is a flap at the end of each pamphlet to cover the right-hand picture while a young reader tries to make out the words on the left-hand page.  The fables are told in the present tense.  The computer-generated graphics seem to match up well with the texts.  This version does not motivate the boy for his surprising action.  After his first try angers the townsfolk, a wolf appears the next day.  At the end of that attack, the sheep are all gone.

This is one of ten landscape pamphlets of 24 pages each that come in two five-pamphlet sets.  This set is labeled as "Volume I."  Texts offer rhyming verse, and there is a flap at the end of each pamphlet to cover the right-hand picture while a young reader tries to make out the words on the left-hand page.  The fables are told in the present tense.  The computer-generated graphics seem to match up well with the texts.  This version has the rabbit suggesting the race.  During the race, the rabbit "lies down to sleep."  The best illustration has the rabbit making a face mocking the turtle's efforts.

This is one of ten landscape pamphlets of 24 pages each that come in two five-pamphlet sets.  This set is labeled as "Volume II."  Texts offer rhyming verse, and there is a flap at the end of each pamphlet to cover the right-hand picture while a young reader tries to make out the words on the left-hand page.  The fables are told in the present tense.  The computer-generated graphics seem to match up well with the texts.  This version includes a curious imaging of the death of the goose.  A "goose soul" with a halo departs the goose's corpse, apparently on the way to heaven!  In the strongest illustration, the goose owner, chopping knife in hand, has the goose by the throat.  After the murder, the goose owner sits crying in a cemetery marked by a grave's cross.

This is one of ten landscape pamphlets of 24 pages each that come in two five-pamphlet sets.  This set is labeled as "Volume II."  Texts offer rhyming verse, and there is a flap at the end of each pamphlet to cover the right-hand picture while a young reader tries to make out the words on the left-hand page.  The fables are told in the present tense.  The computer-generated graphics seem to match up well with the texts.  This version cleverly bypasses the question of how the dog came into possession of the bone.  The version also handles well the question of whether the "other" bone is bigger.  "Oh look, another dog with a bone that's so fine!"  "Give me that bone!" is this dog's reaction.  Good images show the two dogs together in one view and then the bone floating down the river.  This may be the best done of these ten pamphlets.

This is one of ten landscape pamphlets of 24 pages each that come in two five-pamphlet sets.  This set is labeled as "Volume II."  Texts offer rhyming verse, and there is a flap at the end of each pamphlet to cover the right-hand picture while a young reader tries to make out the words on the left-hand page.  The fables are told in the present tense.  The computer-generated graphics seem to match up well with the texts.  This version takes its own way in telling the fable.  The ant, responding positively to the grasshopper's offer, plays with him until autumn, when she must collective food, since it is "winter's eve."  The grasshopper plays on, since he "doesn't care."  In winter, the grasshopper sees the ant "all full and fed."  Here there is no request of the ant and therefore no rejection by her.  The grasshopper remembers that "There's a time for playing and there's a time for working."

This is one of ten landscape pamphlets of 24 pages each that come in two five-pamphlet sets.  This set is labeled as "Volume II."  Texts offer rhyming verse, and there is a flap at the end of each pamphlet to cover the right-hand picture while a young reader tries to make out the words on the left-hand page.  The fables are told in the present tense.  The computer-generated graphics seem to match up well with the texts.  In this version, the simple rhyming lines work well.  The "bet" is accurately set up with "You can't get his coat off, I'm the only one who can!"  The best two of the illustrations have contrasting expressions on the faces of wind and sun, just before the pamphlet's center and at the point where the man takes his coat off.

This is one of ten landscape pamphlets of 24 pages each that come in two five-pamphlet sets.  This set is labeled as "Volume II."  Texts offer rhyming verse, and there is a flap at the end of each pamphlet to cover the right-hand picture while a young reader tries to make out the words on the left-hand page.  The fables are told in the present tense.  The computer-generated graphics seem to match up well with the texts.  This version is told simply and well.  The last two pages of text offer this: "The happy crow knows he need not be quick, For little by little is what does the trick."