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2014 Leylek Ile Tilki (Stork and Fox).  Memet Turkkan.  Illustrations by Ferihan SEN & Hatice SEN.  Pamphlet.  Istanbul: Gendas La Fontaine Masallari: Gendas, A.S.  $5 from thegreatcollectors through Ebay, June, '22.

Here is a 32-page one-staple pamphlet, with half the pages presenting full-page colored illustrations.  Here the artists do a good job with the two animals' facial expressions in FS.  Particularly good are the expressions on the fox's face throughout the story.  The last page features questions and a crossword puzzle.  5¼ by 7¾".

2014 Karga Ile Tilki (Crow and Fox).  Memet Turkkan.  Illustrations by Ferihan SEN & Hatice SEN.  Pamphlet.  Istanbul: Gendas La Fontaine Masallari 2:  Gendas, A.S.  $5 from thegreatcollectors through Ebay, June, '22.

Here is a 32-page one-staple pamphlet, with half the pages presenting full-page colored illustrations.  Here the artists do a good job with the fox's face throughout this presentation of FC.  The artists achieve a fine effect by having page 20 echo page 18 except for the added presence of the crow.  Somehow two mice doing laundry with clothespins figure in the early part of this story.  The last page features questions and a crossword puzzle.  5¼ by 7¾".

2014 Kurt Ile Tilki 'nin Duruşmasi (Trial of the Wolf and Fox).  Memet Turkkan.  Illustrations by Ferihan SEN & Hatice SEN.  Pamphlet.  Istanbul: Gendas La Fontaine Masallari 3:  Gendas, A.S.  $5 from thegreatcollectors through Ebay, June, '22.

Here is a 32-page one-staple pamphlet, with half the pages presenting full-page colored illustrations.  Here the artists do a good job with the characters' faces throughout this story of the monkey judge seeing through the two contesting litigants.  The last two illustrations show well how the judge makes his more-than-logical decision that both are guilty.  The cover offers a strangely quiet, pastoral picture of a trial out in the midst of the forest.  The last page features questions and a crossword puzzle.  5¼ by 7¾".

2014 Eşek Ile At (The Horse and Ass).  Memet Turkkan.  Illustrations by Ferihan SEN & Hatice SEN.  Pamphlet.  Istanbul: Gendas La Fontaine Masallari 5:  Gendas, A.S.  $5 from thegreatcollectors through Ebay, June, '22.

Here is a 32-page one-staple pamphlet, with half the pages presenting full-page colored illustrations.  Here the artists do particularly good work in showing the horse, now laden with the ass's burden and with the ass himself, stooped over and laboring with the load, just as the ass had done earlier.  Earlier, the horse was the image of nobility, arrogance, and even anger at the suggestion of cooperative work.  The last page features questions and a crossword puzzle.  5¼ by 7¾".

2014 Kurt Ile Kuzu (Wolf and Lamb).  Bilsev Burma.  Illustrations by Ferihan SEN & Hatice SEN.  Pamphlet.  Istanbul: Gendas La Fontaine Masallari 6: Gendas, A.S.  $5 from thegreatcollectors through Ebay, June, '22.

Here is a 32-page one-staple pamphlet, with half the pages presenting full-page colored illustrations.  Here the artists' strategy seems to be to show the wolf closer and closer to the defenseless lamb in the stream.  In the last two pictures, he first carries the lamb off and then rubs his tummy contentedly and licks his lips.  The last page features questions and a crossword puzzle.  5¼ by 7¾".

2014 Kaplumbağa ile Tavşan (Turtle and Rabbit).  Bilsev Burma.  Illustrations by Ferihan SEN & Hatice SEN.  Pamphlet.  Istanbul: Gendas La Fontaine Masallari 8:  Gendas, A.S.  $5 from thegreatcollectors through Ebay, June, '22.

Here is a 32-page one-staple pamphlet, with half the pages presenting full-page colored illustrations.  This version may not be true to La Fontaine, who has the hare wait at the starting line, as it were, to make it interesting.  Is the setting here that there are various contests, and animals need to register to compete?  So it seems.  The artists' cleverly juxtapose 23 and 25.  The first shows the turtle behind the rabbit.  The second shows the turtle in the same spot with the rabbit now out of sight.  The final illustration of the finish line is good, with the tortoise in the foreground and the hare in the background.  The last page features questions and a crossword puzzle.  5¼ by 7¾".

2014 Güvercin ile Karinca (Ant with Pigeon).  Bilsev Burma.  Illustrated by Ferihan SEN & Hatice SEN.  Pamphlet.  Istanbul: Gendas La Fontaine Masallari 10: Gendas, A.S.  $5 from thegreatcollectors through Ebay, June, '22.

Here is a 32-page one-staple pamphlet, with half the pages presenting full-page colored illustrations. The visual approach to AD here is well done.  The dove seems almost to reach the twig out to the ant rather than dropping it for her.  The ant's bit is enough in this picturing to spend the hunter into spasms.  The final image is good: the ant waves to her friend in the sky.  The last page features questions and a crossword puzzle.  5¼ by 7¾".