Creighton University

Despite requests to be more careful, a wicked elephant breaks trees along his way, trees in which birds have been living.  The birds gather other animals and attack the elephant, with bees stinging his eyes and porcupines shooting quills into his feet.  The elephant ends up running off of a cliff.  The stated moral is "Good man will be rewarded but wicked one will be punished."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #9: a monkey hanging from a branch points to the moral.  The editor has some trouble with English, starting from the first sentence: "Once upon a time, there were a parent bird."  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 ancient fable generally had the wolf playing his flute, but here his howling does the trick quite well.  Might the lesson of the fable be more about flattering than the more general wisdom expressed here?  The stated moral is "A bad situation can be solved by wise thinking."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #9: a monkey hanging from a branch points to the moral.  The editor has some trouble with English, for instance in this sentence: "I have a chance to hear your voice befor I will be died."  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 is a traditional telling of CP.  The stated moral is "Solve a problem through thinking."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #9: a monkey hanging from a branch points to the moral.  Perhaps the best illustration in the pamphlet shows the crow trying to push over the pitcher.  She is able to tip it only slightly.  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".

I would not call this traditional tale a fable, especially because of its reliance on magic.  A man is about to cut down a tree when the tree asks to be spared, promising the man three wishes.  He comes home and complains about rice again.  "I wish I had a nice loaf of bread."  His wife complains about his using up the first of three wishes trivially and then says "I wish you had the bread hanging from your nose."  Two wishes down.  When they cannot remove the bread, he wishes that it would be gone.  And so it is.  The stated moral is "Think carefully before you speak."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #9: a monkey hanging from a branch points to the moral.  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".

DM is told here in traditional fashion.  This dog even bites one of the cows on the nose – and the artist has him wear a bandage in the next image.  The fable here, in unusual fashion, describes what people mean by calling someone a dog in the manger: someone not allowing others to use what someone cannot use oneself.  The stated moral is "A dog in the manger is not liked by anybody."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #9: a monkey hanging from a branch points to the moral.  Dogs in Thailand apparently do not voice "bow wow" but rather "hok hok."  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 is the traditional FS fable.  The key line that is turned against the culprit leopard is "Come on, I will help you eat it."  The stated moral is "If you treat somebody badly, they will treat you badly the same way you do."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #9: a monkey hanging from a branch points to the moral.  The editing is particularly poor in this pamphlet.  The story's last line is "Therefore, the leopard had to went home with hunger."  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".